{"id":6660,"date":"2010-06-29T06:52:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T10:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2010-06-29T06:52:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T10:52:53","slug":"f1-could-return-to-rebuilt-a1-ring-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-could-return-to-rebuilt-a1-ring-report\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 could return to rebuilt A1-Ring &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula one could soon return to Austria.<\/p>\n<p>After dropping off the grand prix calendar in 2003, the A1-Ring in Zeltweg &#8211; located in central Austria &#8211; was demolished.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by Red Bull mogul Dietrich Mateschitz, EUR 70 million reconstruction works began late in 2008, including new pit buildings and grandstands.<\/p>\n<p>But although Mateschitz said at the time that &#8220;speaking about a return of formula one&#8221; to Austria &#8220;would be absurd&#8221;, a report in the Kleine Zeitung newspaper has now raised that possibility.<\/p>\n<p>The Styria-based newspaper said F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone sees the former Osterreichring as a potential replacement for a current Asian race.<\/p>\n<p>Kleine Zeitung said the A1-Ring rumour was heard &#8220;several times&#8221; in the Valencia paddock last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The rebuilt circuit, with a DTM race already likely, is set to re-open in April or May of next year.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula one could soon return to Austria. After dropping off the grand prix calendar in 2003, the A1-Ring in Zeltweg &#8211; located in central Austria &#8211; was demolished. Supported by Red Bull mogul Dietrich Mateschitz, EUR 70 million reconstruction works began late in 2008, including new pit buildings and grandstands. But although Mateschitz said at &#8230;<\/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":[1848,59,262,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660"}],"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=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6661,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}