{"id":10903,"date":"2011-02-05T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2011-02-05T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T13:45:38","slug":"ecclestone-to-make-rare-melbourne-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-to-make-rare-melbourne-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone to make rare Melbourne visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a controversy over the future of the Australian grand prix, it seems Bernie Ecclestone will attend the 2011 edition.<\/p>\n<p>The F1 chief executive declared recently that F1 doesn&#8217;t &#8220;need Australia&#8221;, after Melbourne&#8217;s Lord Mayor and premier questioned the value of the Albert Park event for taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>The state Victorian government has since committed to the F1 race, but Ecclestone&#8217;s lack of enthusiam is symbolised by the fact that he hasn&#8217;t made the long haul to Australia for several years.<\/p>\n<p>The local Herald Sun newspaper therefore interprets it as &#8220;a mercy dash&#8221; the 80-year-old&#8217;s plans to attend this March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sure that it is Mr Ecclestone&#8217;s intention to be in Melbourne,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Briton confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a controversy over the future of the Australian grand prix, it seems Bernie Ecclestone will attend the 2011 edition. The F1 chief executive declared recently that F1 doesn&#8217;t &#8220;need Australia&#8221;, after Melbourne&#8217;s Lord Mayor and premier questioned the value of the Albert Park event for taxpayers. The state Victorian government has since committed to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[1100,59,5262,5340,5355],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10904,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions\/10904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}