{"id":12452,"date":"2011-05-23T07:45:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12452"},"modified":"2011-05-23T07:45:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:45:05","slug":"ecclestone-meets-with-sutil-bahrain-prince-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-meets-with-sutil-bahrain-prince-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone meets with Sutil, Bahrain prince in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone had meetings with two key people on the sidelines of the weekend&#8217;s Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Bild newspaper reports that the F1 chief executive met first with Adrian Sutil.<\/p>\n<p>Force India&#8217;s Sutil is engulfed in a scandal that endangers his entire formula one career, with Renault team co-owner Eric Lux threatening to press criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Bild said Ecclestone summoned Sutil in Barcelona because he &#8220;wanted to hear from Adrian the truth about the nightclub incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sutil was then photographed shaking 80-year-old Ecclestone&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<p>Also in Barcelona at the weekend was Bahrain&#8217;s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, according to British newspapers the Telegraph and Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>He was a guest of McLaren, which is part-owned by a Bahraini state-controlled company, even though the Telegraph&#8217;s Tom Cary said the British team &#8220;kept their royal visitor under wraps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It emerges that as Ecclestone admitted in Spain that the 2011 calendar could be extended into December to make room for a rescheduled Bahrain race, the 80-year-old Briton had a &#8220;brief chat&#8221; with the Crown Prince.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone had meetings with two key people on the sidelines of the weekend&#8217;s Spanish grand prix. Bild newspaper reports that the F1 chief executive met first with Adrian Sutil. Force India&#8217;s Sutil is engulfed in a scandal that endangers his entire formula one career, with Renault team co-owner Eric Lux threatening to press criminal &#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":[5311,864,59,3098,5417,5262,5340,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452"}],"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=12452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12453,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452\/revisions\/12453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}