{"id":19550,"date":"2013-10-10T20:47:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19550"},"modified":"2013-10-10T20:47:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:47:30","slug":"ecclestone-very-happy-with-2020-brazil-gp-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-very-happy-with-2020-brazil-gp-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone &#8216;very happy&#8217; with 2020 Brazil GP deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil will continue to host a grand prix every year at Interlagos until at least 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Bernie-Ecclestone-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>In July, we reported that Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad had &#8220;guaranteed&#8221; to Bernie Ecclestone that the ageing venue will be upgraded.<\/p>\n<p>A tender for an all-new three-storey pit and paddock complex, and revisions to the layout, was then launched.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Brazil&#8217;s Globo reports that Haddad has signed a new contract with F1 chief executive Ecclestone that guarantees the Brazilian grand prix until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the deal was signed on Wednesday in Sao Paulo, with the circuit upgrade to be in place by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy that the mayor agreed to the investments that we asked for many years ago,&#8221; Ecclestone confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this had not happened, for sure we would have considered not having the race here.\u00a0 We are very happy now,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil will continue to host a grand prix every year at Interlagos until at least 2020. In July, we reported that Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad had &#8220;guaranteed&#8221; to Bernie Ecclestone that the ageing venue will be upgraded. A tender for an all-new three-storey pit and paddock complex, and revisions to the layout, was then &#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":[59,2059,5262,4410,5340,5342],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19550"}],"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=19550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19551,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19550\/revisions\/19551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}