{"id":19429,"date":"2013-10-01T06:51:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T10:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19429"},"modified":"2013-10-01T06:51:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T10:51:49","slug":"todt-rival-ward-could-oppose-bahrain-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/todt-rival-ward-could-oppose-bahrain-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Todt rival Ward could oppose Bahrain GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Todt&#8217;s rival FIA presidential candidate has announced he would consider dropping the highly controversial Bahrain grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>David Ward told the BBC that current president Todt is guilty of &#8220;poor decision-making&#8221; over green-lighting recent editions of the race amid continuing civil unrest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it looks like the situation is deteriorating or not improving, what there should be &#8211; because this could happen tomorrow in another part of the world &#8211; is a standard process to handle this, that is immune from suggestions that one place is being treated differently from another,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ward, however, denied that his close links to former FIA president Max Mosley are powering his push to dethrone Todt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am doing this entirely for my own reasons,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reasons I&#8217;m running is I can see failures going on in terms of governance that I think are quite serious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Todt&#8217;s rival FIA presidential candidate has announced he would consider dropping the highly controversial Bahrain grand prix. David Ward told the BBC that current president Todt is guilty of &#8220;poor decision-making&#8221; over green-lighting recent editions of the race amid continuing civil unrest. &#8220;If it looks like the situation is deteriorating or not improving, what &#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":[864,4604,5262,5300,5340,284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19429"}],"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=19429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19430,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19429\/revisions\/19430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}