{"id":17910,"date":"2013-03-05T07:01:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17910"},"modified":"2013-03-05T07:01:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T12:01:01","slug":"ecclestone-wants-third-generation-hill-in-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-wants-third-generation-hill-in-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone wants third-generation Hill in F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third-generation formula one driver would be &#8220;fantastic&#8221;, the sport&#8217;s chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the possibility is now quite real, with 1996 world champion Damon Hill&#8217;s 22-year-old son Josh to contest the European F3 championship this year.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this year&#8217;s series will get a test with the fabled F1 team Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Damon Hill has been raising the profile of his son recently, after Josh in 2012 won five races in the Formula Renault 2.0 championship.<\/p>\n<p>Josh&#8217;s grandfather was the 1962 and 1968 world champion Graham Hill, and Josh recently accompanied his father Damon to collect Graham&#8217;s entry into Motor Sport magazine&#8217;s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>All three Hills raced the now iconic blue and white livery of the London rowing club on their helmets.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone told F1 business journalist Christian Sylt: &#8220;I wish Damon&#8217;s son would get into F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be super.\u00a0 It would be fantastic,&#8221; he told City A.M.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third-generation formula one driver would be &#8220;fantastic&#8221;, the sport&#8217;s chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has admitted. Actually, the possibility is now quite real, with 1996 world champion Damon Hill&#8217;s 22-year-old son Josh to contest the European F3 championship this year. The winner of this year&#8217;s series will get a test with the fabled F1 team &#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":[59,1055,5262,5340,1585,4370],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17910"}],"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=17910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17911,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17910\/revisions\/17911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}