{"id":13348,"date":"2011-08-10T07:18:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13348"},"modified":"2011-08-10T07:18:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:18:14","slug":"brawn-hails-f1-hiatus-as-best-ever-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/brawn-hails-f1-hiatus-as-best-ever-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawn hails F1 hiatus as &#8216;best ever idea&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn has hailed F1&#8217;s August hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>In the month-long gap between Hungary and Spa, team factories must close for a mandatory two-week period, with even email systems needing to be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was one of the best ideas we (the teams) have ever had,&#8221; Mercedes&#8217; team boss Brawn is quoted by Der Spiegel, &#8220;because everyone has worked flat-out with constant stress and almost constantly travelling since the beginning of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Explained Toro Rosso chief Franz Tost: &#8220;Only maintenance is allowed, for example in the wind tunnels, but it has to be done by external companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because the shutdown is not an FIA regulation, however, it is not strictly policed, with the teams instead simply promising to abide the gentleman&#8217;s agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Der Spiegel speculated that the agreed penalty for breaches is a EUR 2 million donation to the FIA.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn has hailed F1&#8217;s August hiatus. In the month-long gap between Hungary and Spa, team factories must close for a mandatory two-week period, with even email systems needing to be shut down. &#8220;It was one of the best ideas we (the teams) have ever had,&#8221; Mercedes&#8217; team boss Brawn is quoted by Der Spiegel, &#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":[5262,5300,5340,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348"}],"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=13348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13349,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions\/13349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}