{"id":16495,"date":"2012-08-06T07:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T11:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16495"},"modified":"2012-08-06T07:38:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T11:38:34","slug":"ecclestone-admits-olympic-stadium-gp-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-admits-olympic-stadium-gp-unlikely\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone admits Olympic stadium GP unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has admitted it is unlikely a bid to stage a grand prix at London&#8217;s Olympic stadium will succeed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Bernie-Ecclestone-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-2\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>A company called Intelligent Transport Services recently launched the bid to take over the Olympic venue and use it for a formula one race once this week&#8217;s Games have ended.<\/p>\n<p>But on a visit to Olympic Park at the weekend, F1&#8217;s chief executive said he actually favours rival plans to stage a London street race that would see the cars drive past some of the city&#8217;s most famous landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the Olympic stadium plans, Ecclestone said: &#8220;I would rather have a race where we originally planned in central London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a project we are going to try and make happen,&#8221; he is quoted by the Times newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has admitted it is unlikely a bid to stage a grand prix at London&#8217;s Olympic stadium will succeed. A company called Intelligent Transport Services recently launched the bid to take over the Olympic venue and use it for a formula one race once this week&#8217;s Games have ended. But on a visit to &#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":[59,5262,5340,3970,3971],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495"}],"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=16495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16496,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions\/16496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}