Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno says the city has given up on hosting a Formula One race, according to AP. The announcement comes a week after F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone wrote Alemanno a letter saying it would be difficult for Italy to host more than one race per year, with the Italian Grand Prix in Monza already a fixture on the circuit. Led by industrialist Maurizio Flammini, officials in Rome were hoping to create a street circuit in the EUR district of the city, but had met protests from local citizens. At a news conference Friday, Alemanno said, «Today we're definitively and formally renouncing the plan for Formula One in Rome.»
