{"id":5727,"date":"2010-05-26T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2010-05-26T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:02:16","slug":"singapore-denies-no-time-for-f1-track-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/singapore-denies-no-time-for-f1-track-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore denies no time for F1 track preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Singapore official has played down concerns the city-state will run out of time to prepare the floodlit street circuit for this year&#8217;s formula one race.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Singapore will host the Youth Olympic Games in the same Marina Bay area until the end of August &#8212; less than a month before the F1 circus arrives in town for round 15 of the 2010 world championship.<\/p>\n<p>But Justin Chew, the Singapore Tourism Board&#8217;s executive director of F1 projects, told the state-owned MediaCorp: &#8220;We do have enough time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the timeline set by the Youth Olympic Games organisers, they will take at least two to three weeks to vacate the circuit completely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we have already &#8216;de-conflicted&#8217; it and whatever time they need to move out and what we need to put in the area have been worked out,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The tight schedule means that fundamental structures for the street circuit such as lighting trusses are already being erected.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Singapore official has played down concerns the city-state will run out of time to prepare the floodlit street circuit for this year&#8217;s formula one race.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,525],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727"}],"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=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5728,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions\/5728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}