{"id":16200,"date":"2012-06-15T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2012-06-15T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:06:20","slug":"thailand-eyes-2014-grand-prix-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/thailand-eyes-2014-grand-prix-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand eyes 2014 grand prix debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is on track to secure a round of the 2014 world championship.<\/p>\n<p>The southeast Asian country made its intentions clear recently by successfully bidding to host this year&#8217;s end-of-season Race of Champions in December, which will be attended by reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>Talks have also been taking place about bringing formula one to Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our discussions with Bernie Ecclestone have gone smoothly.\u00a0 We expect to get rights to host a grand prix from 2014 onwards,&#8221; Kanokphand Chulakasem, governor of the Sports Authority of Thailand, is quoted by the Phuket News.<\/p>\n<p>The Thai daily The Nation said 51 per cent Red Bull energy drink owner and co-founder Chalerm Yoovidhya is playing a role in the logistics of the Thai grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is on track to secure a round of the 2014 world championship. The southeast Asian country made its intentions clear recently by successfully bidding to host this year&#8217;s end-of-season Race of Champions in December, which will be attended by reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel. Talks have also been taking place about bringing formula one &#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":[3820,5262,5300,5340,3819,129,3818],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200"}],"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=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16201,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions\/16201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}