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F1: Promoter - New Jersey Back On Track For 2014
New Jersey GP promoter Leo Hindery believes the race will run as scheduled in 2014...
SPEED Staff / GMM  |  Posted March 09, 2013   GMM Newswire
Grand Prix of America promoter Leo Hindery Jr. has no doubt that his event will now take place in 2014. (Image: SPEED)
New Jersey is back on track for a Grand Prix in 2014, promoter Leo Hindery has announced.

The Manhattan-skyline street race was due to make its debut on this year's calendar, but the organizers fell behind on road repairs and obtaining event permits.

Hindery told Sports Business Daily: "I think that Bernie (Ecclestone) made absolutely the right decision (to delay)."

But he added: "We are back under construction.

"We have the consents in place that we didn't have last fall, and we will quite comfortably put the race on, now probably in the mid-year of 2014 with (Ecclestone's) support."

F1 chief executive Ecclestone, however, indicated that New Jersey's problems were not only to do with approvals, or the repair and asphalting of the roads.

"It's a problem for the people that started this, and I think it's basically a financial problem," he said.
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