{"id":5603,"date":"2010-05-21T06:14:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T10:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2010-05-21T06:14:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T10:14:15","slug":"new-york-village-in-talks-for-us-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-york-village-in-talks-for-us-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"New York village in talks for US GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another possible venue for a future United States grand prix has emerged.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After talks for a race in Jersey City reportedly collapsed, it is now suggested that Monticello Motor Club, about two hours from New York City, has been earmarked as a possible alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Autoweek published a letter from the club&#8217;s president Ari Strauss to members revealing that the club &#8211; located in the Town of Thompson in Sullivan County &#8211; is in talks with F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also said Strauss met with Ecclestone a few months ago, and that F1 track designer Hermann Tilke has already visited the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Strauss said Tilke &#8220;confirmed that our track and surrounding properties, with some expansion and minor track modifications, is an excellent location for a grand prix&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that he is working on securing the &#8220;backing and support of local, state, and federal politicians and organisations&#8221; and warned that &#8220;securing F1 is like winning the Olympics, competition is fierce, and this is not a done deal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another possible venue for a future United States grand prix has emerged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[1676,5262,5261,5340,1540,1505],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5604,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}