WEEHAWKEN —Organizers of a twice-postponed Hudson County Formula 1 race are in breach of contract with the international racing circuit's owner, and other would-be sponsors are now welcome to pitch plans for a New York City-area race, according to a published report.

Bernie Ecclestone, the British racing mogul who heads London-based Formula 1 Management, told Auto Week that the group hoping to stage the Grand Prix of America at Port Imperial had never made a single payment on either of two contracts signed since 2011.

“What is amazing with New Jersey is that the people signed a contract,” Ecclestone is quoted as saying in a story posted on autoweek.com. “You have got to assume they knew what they had signed. They should have never made the commitment. We could sue them. They are in breach.”

The race has been proposed for a 3.2-mile street course on public and private roads in Weehawken and West New York, including the Port Imperial mixed use development along the Hudson River waterfront, opposite midtown Manhattan.

But the sponsor, Port Imperial Racing Associates, a group headed by former YES Network boss Leo Hindery Jr., has had trouble raising an estimated $100 million to stage the race. Earlier this month, the race was left off the official 2014 F1 calender, after likewise being excluded from the 2013 season, when the race was originally intended to debut.

Ecclestone's spokeswoman, Enrica Merenghi, did not respond to a request for comment on the Auto Week story.

A spokesman for Port Imperial Racing Associates, Justin Lapatine, said the group had nothing to say on the issue.

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