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By Michael Ventura
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Formula 1 honcho Bernie Ecclestone wants to bring a Grand Prix to New York in 2012.
But those race cars wouldn't be flying down the West Side Highway chasing yellow cabs, or dodging the crosstown bus through Midtown. Manhattan would merely serve as a backdrop to the race.
"[The race would be] in front of Manhattan in New Jersey, with the skyscrapers in the background," Ecclestone told Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, the Associated Press reported. "Fifteen minutes from the center of New York to the circuit would be marvelous."
The last Formula 1 Grand Prix held in the United States was 2007 in Indianapolis, Ind.
