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Indy president: F1 still welcome at Indy
09 April 2008Last month Indianapolis Motorspeedway owner Tony George already openly admitted he hopes to welcome back Formula 1 one day to his track. George admitted it was mainly due to a number of sponsors whether or not F1 can return to the US. This week the track's president joined George in a bid to get Formula 1 back to Indianapolis.
Indianapolis will play host to the MotoGP circus in September. Unlike the Formula 1 cars the MotoGP riders will be racing in the same direction as the track is usually used for IRL races. The track had to make a number of modifications this winter in order to get its safety level up for MotoGP, but the changes shouldn't harm the track's chances to host Formula 1 again one day.
Speaking at a press conference in Indianapolis Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Joie Chitwood said: "Every change we made (this winter) was also inspected and approved by the FIA so that should F1 come back, they can run this course, they can run it their same direction, they can run it the other direction, they can run the four-turn chicane in Turn One or not.
"We did not want to make any changes that would preclude us in the future from hosting F1. I know that Tony has said it, I've said it: The door is open. We think that's a phenomenal racing series; we think it should be back in America. So the door is open. Maybe it can come back some day."
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