{"id":13906,"date":"2011-10-12T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13906"},"modified":"2011-10-12T06:58:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:58:29","slug":"fota-unity-threatened-by-spending-agreement-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fota-unity-threatened-by-spending-agreement-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTA unity threatened by spending agreement debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unity of the formula one teams association FOTA might be racing into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>AS newspaper reports that neither Red Bull nor Mercedes are fans of the so-called resource restriction agreement, with Ferrari and McLaren on the opposing side of the developing debate.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Red Bull as well as Mercedes, the topic of conversation at Suzuka following the high-profile appointments of Aldo Costa and Geoff Willis, feel &#8220;under suspicion for alleged overspending&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams &#8220;seem willing to fight for the elimination of this regulation&#8221;, with some sources saying an impasse could lead to Mercedes and Red Bull leaving FOTA altogether.<\/p>\n<p>AS correspondent Manuel Franco said Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has called upon FOTA, led by his McLaren counterpart Martin Whitmarsh, to resolve the issue this weekend in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Ecclestone admitted recently that he does not support FOTA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I try not to think of them,&#8221; said the F1 chief executive in a joint interview recently with Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, who agreed: &#8220;I also don&#8217;t spend too much time thinking in that direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>F1 chief executive Ecclestone told formula1.com: &#8220;It (FOTA) is an unnecessary association of people who should put their sole emphasis on getting competitive cars on the grid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unity of the formula one teams association FOTA might be racing into trouble. AS newspaper reports that neither Red Bull nor Mercedes are fans of the so-called resource restriction agreement, with Ferrari and McLaren on the opposing side of the developing debate. The report said Red Bull as well as Mercedes, the topic of &#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":[59,5262,5340,118,491],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906"}],"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=13906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13907,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906\/revisions\/13907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}