{"id":13639,"date":"2011-09-09T07:04:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T11:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13639"},"modified":"2011-09-09T07:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T11:04:49","slug":"ecclestone-plays-down-irans-f1-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-plays-down-irans-f1-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone plays down Iran&#8217;s F1 chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has played down reports formula one could be headed to Iran in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reports this week revealed that officials are building a $85 million track south of capital Tehran, with construction to &#8220;follow all F1 standards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A subsequent media release clarified that the track will only be seeking Grade 2 certification by the FIA initially, which is not sufficient to host a grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>But arguably the biggest obstacle is the country itself, with Telegraph correspondent Tom Cary arguing that &#8220;it is difficult to conceive of a less likely venue&#8221; for F1.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Express&#8217; Bob McKenzie agreed that the thought of an Iranian grand prix &#8220;under the present repressive regime&#8221; is &#8220;bizarre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>F1 chief executive Ecclestone said: &#8220;We have three or four countries already waiting for a race.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think Iran is top of our list.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has played down reports formula one could be headed to Iran in the near future. Local media reports this week revealed that officials are building a $85 million track south of capital Tehran, with construction to &#8220;follow all F1 standards&#8221;. A subsequent media release clarified that the track will only be seeking Grade &#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":[59,5262,5340,3292],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13639"}],"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=13639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13640,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13639\/revisions\/13640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}