interview with FIVEaa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m walking around with Stefano Domenicali, and the issues start to happen in Iran,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know who was on the phone when I\u2019m walking with Stefano? His phone rings, up it comes, and I notice Peter Malinauskas\u2019s name comes up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought this was genius. He actually started negotiating with Formula 1 about the opportunity to bring the Bahrain GP to Adelaide.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turned out Formula 1 believes it\u2019s just too expensive to do it et cetera.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a remarkable coincidence, McGuire claimed he had been attempting to woo Formula 1 to consider a second grand prix in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did doff my cap, because I was trying to do exactly the same thing at the same time, and your bloke Peter Malinauskas was all over it trying to get the Formula 1 grand prix this month to Adelaide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a near thing. He did everything right. It\u2019s only that in the end Formula 1 said no.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alonso retires with vibration issues | 00:23<\/p>\n
The South Australian government entered its caretaker period in February ahead of this weekend\u2019s election, during which time entering into major contracts or undertakings are avoided by convention.<\/p>\n
A second race in Australia in either Adelaide or Melbourne was always going to be highly unlikely given Formula 1\u2019s intricate logistics as well as the lead time required to set up a world championship grand prix.<\/p>\n
Diverting air and sea freight \u2014 some of which exists in multiple copies so it can travel by sea many months in advance of races held outside Europe \u2014 would be complex and costly, particularly given any race in southeast Australia would be the most geographically isolated on the calendar after Brazil\u2019s Sao Paulo Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Setting up a temporary street circuit is also a lengthy and costly process.<\/p>\n
In Melbourne\u2019s case the time Albert Park can be closed to the public is dictated by legislation, which would make a second race in April, more than a month after the first, unlikely. The Albert Park garage building is also set to be demolished and rebuilt from the end of this month.<\/p>\n
Even if the Adelaide infrastructure could be set up quickly, the circuit is no longer approved to host Formula 1, and any changes required by the homologation process could blow out the already improbable timeline.<\/p>\n
Adelaide hosted the Australian Grand Prix between 1985 and 1995 before the race switched to Melbourne\u2019s Albert Park.<\/p>\n
Part of Adelaide\u2019s F1 circuit was retained for the Supercars, with the city now hosting the sport\u2019s annual grand final round.<\/p>\n
Most of the original track will be revived, albeit with key modifications, next year when the city will host its first motorcycle grand prix after drawing MotoGP away from Phillip Island on a six-year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia pitched Adelaide to Formula 1 as a replacement for the cancelled Bahrain and Saudi Arabian grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[2620,271134,12295,271130,1724,64,63,689,271129,2492,247248,271133,936,24562,268803,271127,33095,512,9239,16289,817,845,813,816,271135,841,21782,14211,271128,5575,271136,941,1737,21785,60607,647,193796,677,271132,2119,14640,1124,97848,12540,85,271131,45262,660,12000],"class_list":["post-547954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-alterative-venues","tag-andrea-kimi-antonelli","tag-annual-grand-final","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-election","tag-australian-government","tag-australian-home","tag-australian-state-election","tag-bahrain","tag-british-driver","tag-car-vibrations","tag-caretaker-period","tag-championship-grand-prix","tag-china","tag-eastern-asia","tag-eddie-mcguire","tag-f1","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-garage-building","tag-grand-prix","tag-grand-prix-victory","tag-grands-prix","tag-homologation-process","tag-iran","tag-issues-start","tag-japan","tag-lando-norris","tag-maiden-grand-prix","tag-martin-keep","tag-melbourne","tag-motorcycle-grand-prix","tag-oceania","tag-phone-rings","tag-pit-talk","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-south-australia","tag-south-australian","tag-southern-asia","tag-sports","tag-temporary-street-circuit","tag-triple-m","tag-victoria","tag-western-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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