20 Oct 2012

Inaugural F1 New Jersey grand prix postponed

11:02 am on 20 October 2012

Next year's inaugural Grand Prix of America in New Jersey will be postponed to 2014 because local organizers need more time to prepare

Organisers say the plan now is for a race in 2014, when the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi is also due to make its debut on the calendar after that year's Winter Olympics there.

The waterfront Grand Prix of America, with the New York skyline as a backdrop, had been pencilled in for June 16 next year with an asterisk against it.

It would have followed a weekend after the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal as a North American double-header.