{"id":11980,"date":"2011-04-19T07:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11980"},"modified":"2011-04-19T07:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T11:01:45","slug":"politics-threaten-f1-race-at-nurburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/politics-threaten-f1-race-at-nurburgring\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics threaten F1 race at Nurburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A political alliance in Germany is reportedly endangering the future of the formula one race at the Nurburgring.<\/p>\n<p>Elections in the western Rhineland-Palatinate state were recently held and the ruling SPD party lost its absolute majority.<\/p>\n<p>The green party, meanwhile, tripled its vote meaning that a ruling coalition has been formed, and according to DPA news agency this endangers state funding for the Nurburgring&#8217;s F1 contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have nothing against car racing in the Eifel,&#8221; said the green (Grunen) state party chief Daniel Kobler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just have a problem if tax money is needed to ensure that more millions and billions are reaped in profits (by F1),&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the negotiations with the SPD, we will work to permanently remove the subsidies for the &#8216;Ring in the foreseeable future,&#8221; said Kobler.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political alliance in Germany is reportedly endangering the future of the formula one race at the Nurburgring. Elections in the western Rhineland-Palatinate state were recently held and the ruling SPD party lost its absolute majority. The green party, meanwhile, tripled its vote meaning that a ruling coalition has been formed, and according to DPA &#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":[3012,5262,5340,2028],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980"}],"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=11980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11981,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions\/11981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}