{"id":17908,"date":"2013-03-05T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T11:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17908"},"modified":"2013-03-05T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T11:58:06","slug":"ecclestone-wants-22-race-calendar-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-wants-22-race-calendar-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone wants 22-race calendar in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he wants to push out F1&#8217;s already bustling calendar to 22 races in 2014.<\/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\" \/>This year, with New Jersey&#8217;s demise, the schedule has dropped from its original 20 grands prix to just nineteen.<\/p>\n<p>But Russia is joining the action next season, and F1 business journalist Christian Sylt wrote in a City A.M. report that talks are on with Mexico and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having races in the right place is what matters,&#8221; F1 chief executive Ecclestone told Sylt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The teams could probably deal with 22 races.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old also said he would like Africa to host a race in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be in Cape Town,&#8221; said Ecclestone.\u00a0 &#8220;I have been offered Durban but I think we would be better off in Cape Town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he wants to push out F1&#8217;s already bustling calendar to 22 races in 2014. This year, with New Jersey&#8217;s demise, the schedule has dropped from its original 20 grands prix to just nineteen. But Russia is joining the action next season, and F1 business journalist Christian Sylt wrote in a City &#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":[59,1970,5262,5340,1237],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908"}],"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=17908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17909,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908\/revisions\/17909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}