{"id":18712,"date":"2013-07-07T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18712"},"modified":"2013-07-07T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T16:29:09","slug":"ecclestone-loses-interest-in-buying-nurburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-loses-interest-in-buying-nurburgring\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone loses interest in buying Nurburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday performed a swift u-turn, having said earlier he is &#8220;thinking about&#8221; buying the financially embattled Nurburgring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Bernie-Ecclestone-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>&#8220;If I do that (buy the circuit),&#8221; the F1 chief executive had told Die Welt newspaper, &#8220;it would mean the German grand prix is secure in the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to quotes that will appear in the Rhein-Zeitung newspaper on Monday, however, 82-year-old Briton Ecclestone has had a rapid change of heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought about it and it (buying the Nurburgring) is not practical for me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone&#8217;s latest comments follow reports Red Bull mogul Dietrich Mateschitz, Nurburgring chief Jorg Lindner and the German automobile club ADAC are also interested in bidding for the fabled circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone said he hopes someone buys the Nurburgring &#8220;as we enjoy being here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are always happy to come here,&#8221; he added, &#8220;especially as we&#8217;ve been coming here for so long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday performed a swift u-turn, having said earlier he is &#8220;thinking about&#8221; buying the financially embattled Nurburgring. &#8220;If I do that (buy the circuit),&#8221; the F1 chief executive had told Die Welt newspaper, &#8220;it would mean the German grand prix is secure in the future&#8221;. According to quotes that will appear in &#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":[59,5262,5340,1548,2028],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18712"}],"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=18712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18714,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18712\/revisions\/18714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}