{"id":12045,"date":"2011-04-26T07:08:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T11:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2011-04-26T07:08:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T11:08:31","slug":"japan-crisis-to-also-affect-f1-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/japan-crisis-to-also-affect-f1-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan crisis to also affect F1 &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attendance at the Japanese grand prix later this year will surely be affected by the country&#8217;s earthquake and nuclear crisis.<\/p>\n<p>That is the view of F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, as according to a report in the Daily Mail he is already counting the costs of new losses in the sport&#8217;s crucial corporate hospitality area.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 accounts show a $5.2 million loss, as sponsors cut spending on hospitality, causing ticket prices to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Another headache for F1 is the looming race at Suzuka, even though the highly popular circuit was not actually damaged in the recent earthquake and tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem is not going to be any damage to the circuit, it is how much damage is done commercially with people buying tickets,&#8221; said Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old revealed that F1 assisted Japan some years ago when an earthquake struck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had trouble with an earthquake before and tried to help them,&#8221; said Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendance at the Japanese grand prix later this year will surely be affected by the country&#8217;s earthquake and nuclear crisis. That is the view of F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, as according to a report in the Daily Mail he is already counting the costs of new losses in the sport&#8217;s crucial corporate hospitality area. &#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":[59,5262,5340,2281],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045"}],"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=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12046,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions\/12046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}