{"id":9328,"date":"2020-03-12T22:17:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.felixracing.se\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2020-03-12T22:18:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:18:05","slug":"update-st-petersburg-race-to-go-ahead-without-spectators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/update-st-petersburg-race-to-go-ahead-without-spectators\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: St. Petersburg race to go ahead without spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StPete-6-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StPete-6-1024x683-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StPete-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StPete-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StPete-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StPete-6-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StPete-6-1024x683-561x374.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg officials have announced the decision to stage this weekend&#8217;s NTT IndyCar Series opener behind closed doors, in response to the evolving COVID-19 situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weekend schedule will be amended, with IndyCar sessions now due to take place across two days instead of three. There will be no IndyCar on-track action on Friday, with practice and qualifying instead all slated for Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s race is still scheduled to go ahead at 3.30 pm local time \/ 20.30 CET.\u00a0An <a href=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/time-table-st-petersburg-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"updated event time table will be available here (\u00f6ppnas i en ny flik)\">updated event time table will be available here<\/a> as soon as the new timings have been established by race organisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further information as the situation evolves, please stay tuned to official INDYCAR communications. Updates will also be provided through Felix Rosenqvist&#8217;s own social media accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><strong>OFFICIAL ORGANISERS&#8217; PRESS RELEASE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sk\u00e4rmavbild-2020-03-12-kl.-20.57.37-1024x646.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9324\" width=\"512\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sk\u00e4rmavbild-2020-03-12-kl.-20.57.37-1024x646.png 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sk\u00e4rmavbild-2020-03-12-kl.-20.57.37-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sk\u00e4rmavbild-2020-03-12-kl.-20.57.37-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Sk\u00e4rmavbild-2020-03-12-kl.-20.57.37.png 1452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg officials have announced the decision to stage this weekend&#8217;s NTT IndyCar Series opener behind closed doors, in response to the evolving COVID-19 situation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","category-okategoriserade","tag-2020-firestone-grand-prix-of-st-petersburg","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9329,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions\/9329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}