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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.13.2012 - 12:00 pm
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This was a proposed 3.87-mile street circuit to be used by the IndyCar
series on August 19, 2012 for the series' first-ever race in China. The
first race was scheduled, contracted and offically on the schedule but
cancelled in June after a change in local government led to all priority
being put on the annual Qingdao International Beer Festival. The race
was scheduled to take place alongside the beer festival but when the
city's new mayor Zhang Xinqi took office on March 28 that year he
believed the race and the festival should not take place at the same
time. Attempts to reschedule or move the race failed and the race was
cancelled, according to IndyCar it is to be replaced by another likely
domestic USA race (Pocono or a second race at Texas Motor Speedway are
rumored).


  2.   Unser1 posted:
  07.09.2012 - 8:26 pm
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The race wad not replaced.

The new mayor apparently thought he was getting a F1 race when he took
office and supposedly wasn't happy when someone explained to him the
difference between that and IndyCar for what he was actually getting.


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