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Bernie Ecclestone announces the inaugural New Jersey Grand Prix won't take place in 2013.

The F1 supremo says he has reached the limit in terms of waiting for the organizers to get things in order on their end.

Foundation work was due to begin in early autumn but the engineering permits are still to get required before any work can start.

Bernie Ecclestone tells Eurosport: "It is not going to happen next year."

The Briton adds: "If they came up with the contract with us and we were satisfied the question is could they carry out the work in six months? Winter in New York is not good. There's not a lot going on with New Jersey. They are still running around trying to get their finances sorted out. I think if suddenly they found the investors they would be okay. They are looking for investors."

Bernie Ecclestone added to the Press Association: "The reason is because they didn't quite know what they were doing. They got all the permissions together. Everything was done, that was all fine, but then they missed the boat a little on some financing that was coming in."

Ecclestone's decision frees up one place on the 2013 calendar, reports say he is already in discussions over a Mexican Grand Prix.

But Bernie Ecclestone denied suggestions Turkey or Mexico could replace New York on the 20-race 2013 calendar.

"No, no, no. It will be 19 races," he said.

Sebastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia have contacted Rally Italia's director in order to ask safety changes on the Sardinian stages.

Both men sent an e-mail to the organizers after they spotted dangerous places during the recce, especially with open-ended barriers at some points of a new special stage that has been added this year.

In June, a crash in a similar barrier cost the life of Gareth Roberts, Craig Breen's co-driver aboard a Peugeot 207 S2000, during the Targa Florio, an IRC round presented in Sicilia. In 2011, Robert Kubica was seriously injured in similar circumstances during a local rally in Italy.

"I noted the places where they are very dangerous and for three point, it was very bad, so this is why I made the email to them," said Ingrassia. "We have spoken about this with huge importance since some very bad accidents in the last 15 months. This is the black point of the moment and I was really upset and angry that nothing has been done on a new stage like this."

Event director announced that changes will be made on those particular points.

The first day of the rally Italia Sardinia, which consisted in two runs of the same special stage, was dominated by both Citroen driver, who took each one stage victory. Sebastien Loeb remained in first position ahead of team mate Mikko Hirvonen. Jari-Matti Latvala (Ford) lost time when he damaged a front wheel following a contact with a rock.

The Firestone Indy Lights Series officials have made public their 2013 schedule that will feature a diverse line up of ovals, road and street circuits and new additions with Pocono Houston and a return to Mid-Ohio.

As does the IZOD IndyCar Series, the season will open March 23-24 on the streets of St. Petersburg and the season finale will once again be hosted at Auto Club Speedway, Oct. 18-19.

Tristan Vautier, 2012 Champion Firestone Indy Lights Serie. (Photo: Sam Schmidt Motorsports)

All event weekends will be run in conjunction with the IZOD IndyCar Series; the first of five ovals being the Freedom 100 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 24.

2013 Firestone Indy Lights Schedule

March 23-24 St. Petersburg - street course
April 6-7 Barber Motorsports Park - road course
April 20-21 Long Beach - street course
May 24 Indianapolis Motor Speedway - oval
June 14-15 Milwaukee Mile - oval
June 22-23 Iowa Speedway- oval
July 6-7 Pocono International Raceway- oval
July 12-13 Toronto - street course
Aug. 3-4 Mid-Ohio- road course
Aug. 31-Sept. 1 Baltimore - street course
Oct. 5-6 Houston - street course
Oct. 18-19 Fontana - oval

In addition to the Hyundai Genesis coupe we talked about last month, ARK Performance is customizing a Veloster hatchback for the 2012

Volkswagen Group of America's electronics research laboratory is teaming up with Silicon Valley's Plug and Play Tech Center to create an incubator for next-generation automotive technologies.

Stanford Ovshinsky, an inventor and founder of Energy Conversion Devices who dedicated his life to finding alternative forms of energy, died Wednesday of cancer at his home in suburban Detroit. He was 89.

A fund that covers medical costs for GM's unionized retirees said its funding shortfall widened last year partly as a result of the declining value of its investments in GM, government documents show.

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A federal judge in California tossed out a suit challenging the use of Albert Einstein's image in a General Motors advertisement, a Detroit newspaper reported today.

At times it seems that there is a vast and well-coordinated conspiracy against fun. Come up with something bold, unique and thrilling, and bureaucrats and regulators will come out of the woodwork to tell you why it is illegal.

If you're going bench racing, you may as well go all the way. That's why for this edition we're checking in on super SUVs with more than 500 hp. Price is no option and fuel mileage should range from laughable to sad.

GM is frustrating the hell out of Wall Street.

General Motors said it will hire 3,000 Hewlett-Packard employees as part of its ongoing effort to bring most information-technology work back in-house.

New vehicle sales in Thailand jumped by 52.5% year-on-year to 132,680 units in September, from 87,012 in the same month a year earlier, according to data released by the Federation of Thai Industries.

Italian union sources maintain the upcoming meeting between Fiat CEO, Sergio Marchionne and Italian labour bodies to detail a new business plan for the automaker, will not see plant closures unveiled.

BMW plans to build a new assembly plant in Brazil, tapping into the growing market for luxury cars in Latin America's largest economy.

BMW plans to build a new assembly plant in Brazil, tapping into the growing market for luxury cars in Latin America's largest economy, "We are on track and will now submit an investment plan with the Brazilian government," finance chief Friedrich...

Valeo presented a number of major innovations at the Paris Motor Show recently. Ian Henry, just-auto/QUBE analyst, spoke with Patrick Sega, Transversal Projects Director for Group R&D at Valeo about some of these innovations. Here, we report on the new electric supercharger.

Chevrolet plans to end production of the 2013 Corvette in February and idle the sport car's assembly plant in Bowling Green, Ky., for six months as it retools for the highly anticipated all-new model.