{"id":19037,"date":"2013-08-20T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19037"},"modified":"2013-08-20T07:15:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:15:30","slug":"williams-has-healthy-budget-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-has-healthy-budget-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams has &#8216;healthy budget&#8217; for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy boss Claire Williams insists she is &#8220;happy&#8221; with the Oxfordshire based team&#8217;s budget for 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Claire-Williams-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Claire-Williams-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Her comments come amid reports many teams on the grid, like Sauber and even the title-charging Lotus, are struggling to survive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our finances are open for everyone to see,&#8221; Williams, referring to the Grove team&#8217;s listing on the Frankfurt stock exchange, is quoted by Brazil&#8217;s Totalrace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a healthy budget and have done a good job on the business side to ensure that we are in as competitive a situation as possible for next year,&#8221; she insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of team founder and boss Sir Frank Williams, however, said the fact Williams is in a healthy situation does not mean F1 should not do more to level the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Williams has always embraced controls in spending,&#8221; said Williams, &#8220;since they began to be implemented in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very important for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are an independent team and so we can&#8217;t afford to see costs increase when there is already such discrepancy in terms of (team) budgets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must ensure that we can all compete more equally,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy boss Claire Williams insists she is &#8220;happy&#8221; with the Oxfordshire based team&#8217;s budget for 2014. Her comments come amid reports many teams on the grid, like Sauber and even the title-charging Lotus, are struggling to survive. &#8220;Our finances are open for everyone to see,&#8221; Williams, referring to the Grove team&#8217;s listing on the Frankfurt &#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":[434,5262,5340,541,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19037"}],"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=19037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19038,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19037\/revisions\/19038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}