{"id":16967,"date":"2012-11-03T08:28:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16967"},"modified":"2012-11-03T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:28:12","slug":"ecclestone-to-pay-budget-cap-whistle-blowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-to-pay-budget-cap-whistle-blowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone to pay budget cap whistle-blowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has an innovative idea to police his F1 budget cap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" 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\" \/>Some top teams are not keen on the proposal to cap their total annual spend to US $250 million, but the sport&#8217;s chief executive is nonetheless confident it could work.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone, 82, told the Express newspaper that the most effective way to police the cap would be to pay whistle-blowers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People within teams know if something is going on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An incentive of $500,000 might encourage people to speak out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also want team principals and team owners to sign a contract which would hold them personally responsible for cheating and they would have to pay the fines themselves,&#8221; added the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller teams, however, are not sure the $250m cap would be overly helpful to them.<\/p>\n<p>Told the figure Ecclestone has proposed, Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost responded: &#8220;Ha &#8212; we are far away from that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has an innovative idea to police his F1 budget cap. Some top teams are not keen on the proposal to cap their total annual spend to US $250 million, but the sport&#8217;s chief executive is nonetheless confident it could work. Ecclestone, 82, told the Express newspaper that the most effective way to police &#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":[59,5262,5340,910,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967"}],"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=16967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16968,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967\/revisions\/16968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}