{"id":1497,"date":"2010-01-13T06:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2010-01-13T06:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:20:04","slug":"all-living-champions-to-attend-2010-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/all-living-champions-to-attend-2010-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"All living champions to attend 2010 opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">All living F1 world champions will come together at March&#8217;s 2010 season opener in Bahrain.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be a truly special occasion, especially for all those who love F1 and who have been following the sport for many years,&#8221; said circuit boss Martin Whitaker.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are 20 living world champions and &#8220;they will all be here&#8221; as part of F1&#8217;s 60th anniversary celebrations, he confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 20 living champions are Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Alan Jones, Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, Jack Brabham and John Surtees.<\/p>\n<p>There are also four world champions in the 2010 championship, and 2007 title winner Kimi Raikkonen could theoretically attend the event due to a gap in the rally calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 20 of the cars driven by the champions will be on display.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This promises to be something spectacular,&#8221; Whitaker said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All living F1 world champions will come together at March&#8217;s 2010 season opener in Bahrain. \u00a0 &#8220;This will be a truly special occasion, especially for all those who love F1 and who have been following the sport for many years,&#8221; said circuit boss Martin Whitaker.<\/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":[53,3],"tags":[375,376,5315,378,5262,379,380,377,374,285,288],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497"}],"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=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}