{"id":13135,"date":"2011-07-18T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T11:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13135"},"modified":"2011-07-18T07:09:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T11:09:16","slug":"ecclestone-goes-to-nurburgring-despite-bribery-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-goes-to-nurburgring-despite-bribery-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone goes to Nurburgring despite bribery probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone insists he is not afraid to travel to the Nurburgring this week for the German grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course,&#8221; the F1 chief executive told Bild newspaper when asked if he will be at the tenth round of the world championship.\u00a0 &#8220;Why wouldn&#8217;t I be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There has been speculation Ecclestone, 80, might stay away while he is being investigated by German prosecutors for possible involvement in the Gerhard Gribkowsky bribery affair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why would they arrest me?\u00a0 There is no reason,&#8221; the Briton insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The German newsmagazine Focus reports that Gribkowsky faces a longer prison term than originally envisaged &#8211; ten years &#8211; due to the prosecutors&#8217; plans to lay additional charges.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg said a spokeswoman for the prosecutors did not answer her mobile phone on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone insists he is not afraid to travel to the Nurburgring this week for the German grand prix. &#8220;Of course,&#8221; the F1 chief executive told Bild newspaper when asked if he will be at the tenth round of the world championship.\u00a0 &#8220;Why wouldn&#8217;t I be?&#8221; There has been speculation Ecclestone, 80, might stay away &#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":[59,5262,5340,1548],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135"}],"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=13135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13136,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13135\/revisions\/13136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}