{"id":16252,"date":"2012-07-02T07:36:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T11:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16252"},"modified":"2012-07-02T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T11:19:11","slug":"mclarens-vodafone-backing-in-doubt-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclarens-vodafone-backing-in-doubt-report\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren&#8217;s Vodafone backing in doubt &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-logos\/McLaren.jpg\" alt=\"McLaren\" width=\"288\" height=\"115\" \/>McLaren&#8217;s lucrative title sponsorship could be in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times reports that Vodafone, the British telecommunications national, &#8220;is reviewing&#8221; its major sponsorship deals.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone is Woking based McLaren&#8217;s naming sponsor and the review &#8220;will probably raise questions about its continued involvement&#8221;, wrote telecoms journalist Daniel Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>The current contract, which according to one source is worth &#8220;tens of millions of pounds&#8221; a year to McLaren, runs out at the end of next season.<\/p>\n<p>The source added that mobile phone businesses throughout Europe are struggling in the current economy.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone did not comment, while another source said the review is &#8220;informal&#8221; and no conclusions have been made yet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren&#8217;s lucrative title sponsorship could be in doubt. The Financial Times reports that Vodafone, the British telecommunications national, &#8220;is reviewing&#8221; its major sponsorship deals. Vodafone is Woking based McLaren&#8217;s naming sponsor and the review &#8220;will probably raise questions about its continued involvement&#8221;, wrote telecoms journalist Daniel Thomas. The current contract, which according to one source &#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":[5262,5340,5284,5309],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252"}],"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=16252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16253,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions\/16253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}