{"id":15649,"date":"2012-03-28T06:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T10:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15649"},"modified":"2012-03-28T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T11:06:21","slug":"fia-rejects-latest-bahrain-axe-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-rejects-latest-bahrain-axe-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA rejects latest Bahrain axe rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FIA has dismissed the latest rumours about next month’s Bahrain grand prix.<\/p>\n

Some publications this week said F1’s governing body was in the process of drafting a statement announcing that the Sakhir race has been cancelled due to security concerns.<\/p>\n

\"FIA-2\"But the FIA’s director of communications Norman Howell angrily denied those reports.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Sheikh Abdullah bin Isa al-Khalifa, Bahrain’s motor racing federation chief and also an FIA world council member, admitted he could not guarantee the safety of F1’s travelling personnel next month.<\/p>\n

“There are no guarantees in this world,” he is quoted by PA Sport, after admitting “disturbances” in Bahrain are still taking place.<\/p>\n

“You could be (in danger) anywhere, even Silverstone.<\/p>\n

“All I can guarantee you is you will be as safe as at any other grand prix.”<\/p>\n

Asked if there will be extra security measures in place, Khalifa answered: “No, absolutely not.\u00a0 It will be life as normal.<\/p>\n

“We’ve never had any violence towards foreigners simply because they are foreigners or in F1.”<\/p>\n

F1 industry monitor Formula Money has found that the Bahrain grand prix is more commercially successful for teams and trackside advertisers even than Monaco, Spa and Monza.<\/p>\n

The publication also said that if the 2012 race is cancelled, “the teams could lose $44.7m of prize money”.<\/p>\n

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The FIA has dismissed the latest rumours about next month’s Bahrain grand prix. Some publications this week said F1’s governing body was in the process of drafting a statement announcing that the Sakhir race has been cancelled due to security concerns. But the FIA’s director of communications Norman Howell angrily denied those reports. At the …<\/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":[3665,864,5262,5300,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649"}],"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=15649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15665,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649\/revisions\/15665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}