{"id":14456,"date":"2011-11-29T20:55:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T01:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14456"},"modified":"2011-11-29T20:55:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T01:55:49","slug":"europe-finished-as-f1s-spiritual-home-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/europe-finished-as-f1s-spiritual-home-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe &#8216;finished&#8217; as F1&#8217;s spiritual home &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European races are a dying breed on the formula one calendar, Bernie Ecclestone said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2010\/f1-10-drivers\/Bernie-Ecclestone.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At present, there are eight European rounds on the 20-event 2012 schedule, with the majority of the season therefore taking place throughout Asia, the Far and Middle East and the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>And Europe should prepare to shed even more events in the future, said Ecclestone, with the F1 chief executive telling Spain&#8217;s Marca that the continent &#8211; currently gripped in a worsening economic crisis &#8211; is &#8220;finished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think in the next few years Europe will be left with only five races,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Europe is finished.\u00a0 It will be a good place for tourism but little else.\u00a0 Europe is a thing of the past,&#8221; added Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>Told that Europe is F1&#8217;s spiritual home, he insisted: &#8220;It used to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the next hosts to join the calendar will be Russia and perhaps also South Africa and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European races are a dying breed on the formula one calendar, Bernie Ecclestone said on Tuesday. At present, there are eight European rounds on the 20-event 2012 schedule, with the majority of the season therefore taking place throughout Asia, the Far and Middle East and the Americas. And Europe should prepare to shed even more &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[59,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456"}],"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=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14457,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions\/14457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}