{"id":13611,"date":"2011-09-05T07:14:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13611"},"modified":"2011-09-05T07:14:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:14:48","slug":"thailand-to-bid-for-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/thailand-to-bid-for-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand to bid for grand prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand has become the latest country bidding to join the ever-expanding formula one calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The Bangkok Post said media reports have been confirmed by Thailand&#8217;s official promotion arm the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s president Akapol Sorasuchart said businesses have called on Thailand to organise major events in order to enhance its reputation.<\/p>\n<p>He said experts will be called in to study the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Building an F1 circuit is very costly but it would be useful after the races end,&#8221; said Mr Akapol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(And) I think that street racing is interesting for Thailand because it involves lower investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said a street layout would likely include the capital city Bangkok&#8217;s Ratchadamnoen road, built in 1899 to link the royal palaces during King Rama&#8217;s reign.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand has become the latest country bidding to join the ever-expanding formula one calendar. The Bangkok Post said media reports have been confirmed by Thailand&#8217;s official promotion arm the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau. The agency&#8217;s president Akapol Sorasuchart said businesses have called on Thailand to organise major events in order to enhance its reputation. &#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":[3286,5262,5340,3287],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13611"}],"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=13611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13612,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13611\/revisions\/13612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}