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Andretti doubts F1 will head back to Long Beach
21 April, 2013 Mario Andretti
Michael Andretti, the USA's most famous race driver, has played down reports Formula 1 could add the iconic Long Beach race to its own annual calendar.
Reports this month said that with Indycar's contract expiring, Bernie Ecclestone and Formula 1 sponsor agency chief Zak Brown had expressed interest in snapping up the California street race.
More recently a fixture of American open wheel racing, the Long Beach event was actually devised for Formula 1 in the mid seventies, and the race ran until 1983.
Now, Ecclestone, Brown and race founder Chris Pook are reportedly in talks to bring Formula 1 back to Long Beach.
'I'm an advocate of Formula 1 buying the Long...
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