{"id":18418,"date":"2013-06-03T06:48:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T10:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18418"},"modified":"2013-06-03T06:48:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T10:48:44","slug":"hankook-had-several-meetings-with-ecclestone-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hankook-had-several-meetings-with-ecclestone-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hankook had &#8216;several meetings&#8217; with Ecclestone &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hankook has been in talks with Bernie Ecclestone about replacing Pirelli as F1&#8217;s official tyre supplier.<\/p>\n<p>In April, we reported rumours that the South Korean company was an alternative to Pirelli, who are pushing hard for a new contract but also not ruling out quitting the sport.<\/p>\n<p>But, over the weekend, reports emerged that a Hankook spokesperson had said a F1 foray was now &#8220;impossible&#8221; for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Spanish newspaper Diario As correspondent Manuel Franco has revealed that Hankook representatives have in fact met &#8220;several times&#8221; with F1 chief executive Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hankook has been in talks with Bernie Ecclestone about replacing Pirelli as F1&#8217;s official tyre supplier. In April, we reported rumours that the South Korean company was an alternative to Pirelli, who are pushing hard for a new contract but also not ruling out quitting the sport. But, over the weekend, reports emerged that a &#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":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418"}],"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=18418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}