{"id":12612,"date":"2011-06-02T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12612"},"modified":"2011-06-02T06:55:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T10:55:57","slug":"abu-dhabi-confirms-talks-denies-buying-toro-rosso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/abu-dhabi-confirms-talks-denies-buying-toro-rosso\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi confirms talks, denies buying Toro Rosso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi has confirmed talks with Red Bull but denied it is looking to buy the energy drink company&#8217;s second formula one team Toro Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>A Spanish newspaper reported this week that Aabar, already part-owners of the Mercedes team, was looking to buy a second team through its International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) and Spanish oil brand CEPSA.<\/p>\n<p>IPIC chief Khadem Abdulla Al Qubaisi was at the most recent Spanish and Monaco grands prix.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Wednesday, Abu Dhabi state-owned Aabar admitted it is &#8220;currently evaluating options of a potential project based cooperation with Austrian based Red Bull&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These (talks) comprise possible joint activities between Red Bull&#8217;s corporate projects and Abu Dhabi &#8212; they neither include Red Bull&#8217;s formula one teams nor Red Bull&#8217;s beverage business,&#8221; Aabar insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said Aabar has a &#8220;firm and lasting commitment as a 40 per cent stakeholder in &#8230; Mercedes GP&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi has confirmed talks with Red Bull but denied it is looking to buy the energy drink company&#8217;s second formula one team Toro Rosso. A Spanish newspaper reported this week that Aabar, already part-owners of the Mercedes team, was looking to buy a second team through its International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) and Spanish &#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":[163,5262,5340,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612"}],"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=12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12613,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions\/12613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}