{"id":8536,"date":"2010-09-23T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8536"},"modified":"2010-09-23T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T11:30:25","slug":"officials-deny-melbourne-to-move-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/officials-deny-melbourne-to-move-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials deny Melbourne to move grand prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have denied reports there are serious moves afoot to relocate Melbourne&#8217;s Australian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>With the current contract for Albert Park running until 2015, and in light of mounting taxpayer losses, it emerged this week that permanent circuits outside of Melbourne &#8211; at Calder Park or Avalon &#8211; are being considered for the event&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>But a spokesman for the state Victorian tourism minister said: &#8220;The grand prix is staying at Albert Park.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Australian Grand Prix Corporation chairman Ron Walker added: &#8220;The government is happy to leave it (the grand prix) at Albert Park because it showcases the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And state premier John Brumby told reporters on Thursday: &#8220;I think it (the chance of the grand prix moving) is about as close to zero as you can get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have denied reports there are serious moves afoot to relocate Melbourne&#8217;s Australian grand prix. With the current contract for Albert Park running until 2015, and in light of mounting taxpayer losses, it emerged this week that permanent circuits outside of Melbourne &#8211; at Calder Park or Avalon &#8211; are being considered for the event&#8217;s &#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":[5339,1100,5262,5340,5355],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536"}],"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=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8537,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions\/8537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}