{"id":17754,"date":"2013-02-07T07:04:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17754"},"modified":"2013-02-07T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:04:42","slug":"jerez-empty-without-hero-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/jerez-empty-without-hero-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerez &#8217;empty&#8217; without hero Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerez is struggling without Spanish hero Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Fernando-Alonso\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Fernando-Alonso.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The 2012 runner-up and Ferrari driver elected to sit out the opening test of the pre-season in favour of cycling training in a hot country &#8212; possibly the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>His absence has led to mostly &#8220;empty grandstands&#8221; as the rest of the formula one world tests at Jerez in southern Spain, Brazil&#8217;s Globo reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have 25 to 30 per cent more journalists this year,&#8221; Jerez&#8217;s media boss Raul Zarzuela said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone wants to see the new cars &#8212; it&#8217;s almost like a grand prix,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;The absence of Alonso has hurt the interest here (in Spain),&#8221; Zarzuela admitted.\u00a0 &#8220;We (Spain) are in (economic) crisis, of course, but it only costs 10 euros for the whole day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerez is struggling without Spanish hero Fernando Alonso. The 2012 runner-up and Ferrari driver elected to sit out the opening test of the pre-season in favour of cycling training in a hot country &#8212; possibly the Canary Islands. His absence has led to mostly &#8220;empty grandstands&#8221; as the rest of the formula one world tests &#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":[5262,149,93,5340,4316,4321],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754"}],"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=17754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17755,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions\/17755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}