{"id":12328,"date":"2011-05-17T07:20:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12328"},"modified":"2011-05-17T07:20:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T11:20:01","slug":"a1-ring-not-rebuilt-for-f1-tilt-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/a1-ring-not-rebuilt-for-f1-tilt-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"A1-Ring not rebuilt for F1 tilt &#8211; Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Bull Ring is ready for formula one but Gerhard Berger doubts its owner is pushing for the return of the Austrian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Some years ago, the ten-time grand prix winner co-owned Toro Rosso with countryman and billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, who at a nine-digit multi million Euro cost has rebuilt the former A1-Ring in picturesque Styria.<\/p>\n<p>Mateschitz has played down the prospect of bidding for F1 but has achieved F1-standard homologation for the track, with Bernie Ecclestone admitting Austria&#8217;s return to the F1 calendar is &#8220;possible&#8221; as he attended the circuit relaunch at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The track is completely formula one-capable, there&#8217;s no doubt about that,&#8221; Berger told the Austrian broadcaster ORF.\u00a0 &#8220;And if you know Didi Mateschitz and Red Bull, they always do the maximum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the other hand, I don&#8217;t think that (F1) is the idea behind it,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The circuit has not been revitalised to bring a formula one race here, but simply to give a life back to Austrian motor racing.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why it has happened in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What comes next, we&#8217;ll see,&#8221; added Berger.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Bull Ring is ready for formula one but Gerhard Berger doubts its owner is pushing for the return of the Austrian grand prix. Some years ago, the ten-time grand prix winner co-owned Toro Rosso with countryman and billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, who at a nine-digit multi million Euro cost has rebuilt the former A1-Ring &#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":[1848,3082,262,5262,5340,258],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12328"}],"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=12328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12329,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12328\/revisions\/12329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}