{"id":17741,"date":"2013-02-06T07:05:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17741"},"modified":"2013-02-06T07:05:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:05:58","slug":"ecclestone-confirms-only-19-races-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-confirms-only-19-races-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone confirms only 19 races for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that F1&#8217;s 2013 schedule will feature only 19 rounds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Bernie-Ecclestone-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Until New Jersey&#8217;s demise, this year&#8217;s calendar was set to have twenty grands prix.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone, the F1 chief executive, opened up the twentieth slot to a potential new European venue, but he said on Tuesday that he could not now fill it &#8220;at this late stage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(I&#8217;m) disappointed it (the 20th race) didn&#8217;t happen,&#8221; he said in Dubai on Tuesday, where he announced the airline Emirates as a major new F1 sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(But) you can&#8217;t suddenly slot it in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the 82-year-old Briton was quoted by the Gulf News as saying 20 is the ideal number for future F1 calendars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twenty races is more or less what we should aim for in a season,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone said he was adamant Bahrain would host its grand prix as scheduled this year, because things seem &#8220;a little more peaceful&#8221; in the Kingdom in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he definitively dashed the hopes of a group of Canadian and American investors, who had hoped to buy up defunct HRT&#8217;s assets and race this season.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that F1&#8217;s 2013 schedule will feature only 19 rounds. Until New Jersey&#8217;s demise, this year&#8217;s calendar was set to have twenty grands prix. Ecclestone, the F1 chief executive, opened up the twentieth slot to a potential new European venue, but he said on Tuesday that he could not now fill it &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[4320,59,5262,4319,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741"}],"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=17741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17742,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions\/17742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}