{"id":14753,"date":"2012-01-03T00:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14753"},"modified":"2012-01-02T20:35:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T01:35:56","slug":"williams-splits-with-title-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-splits-with-title-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams splits with title sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams appears to have split with its long-time title sponsor AT and T.<\/p>\n<p>After the famous British team scored just 5 points and finished a dismal ninth in the 2011 championship, the logo of its American telecommunications company backer has been removed from official stationary and Williams&#8217; website.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports say the contract expired at the end of December and was not renewed, despite Williams requesting a new three-year deal for $15 million.<\/p>\n<p>Until 2011, AT and T &#8211; title sponsor since 2007 &#8211; is believed to have paid around $7m per season.<\/p>\n<p>It is rumoured Williams could be sponsored by the part state-owned Qatar National Bank in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams appears to have split with its long-time title sponsor AT and T. After the famous British team scored just 5 points and finished a dismal ninth in the 2011 championship, the logo of its American telecommunications company backer has been removed from official stationary and Williams&#8217; website. Initial reports say the contract expired at &#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":[3489,5262,5340,3490,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753"}],"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=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14754,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions\/14754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}