{"id":19674,"date":"2013-10-24T07:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T11:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19674"},"modified":"2013-10-24T07:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T11:03:56","slug":"indian-court-to-hear-plea-to-axe-weekends-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/indian-court-to-hear-plea-to-axe-weekends-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian court to hear plea to axe weekend&#8217;s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian court will on Friday hear a petition to cancel this weekend&#8217;s formula one race near New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Indian reports say a supreme court judge agreed to hear the petition that was filed by a public interest campaigner called Amit Kumar, on the grounds that organisers have not paid enough tax.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will hear the petition tomorrow,&#8221; the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Uttar Pradesh government was in the supreme court seeking the withdrawal of entertainment tax exemption for the beleaguered Indian grand prix organisers.<\/p>\n<p>The exemption had been achieved for F1 by the former Uttar Pradesh government.<\/p>\n<p>While it is unlikely Friday&#8217;s court action will succeed, Indian motor racing official Vicky Chandhok admitted the 2013 race could be the country&#8217;s last.<\/p>\n<p>He told British broadcaster Sky that he is only 70 per cent sure the race will return to the calendar in 2015, after a one-year hiatus for reportedly &#8220;logistical&#8221; reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am really disappointed about not having it 2014, but I hope to be in 2015 and 2016,&#8221; said Chandhok.\u00a0 &#8220;But the price has to be right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian court will on Friday hear a petition to cancel this weekend&#8217;s formula one race near New Delhi. Indian reports say a supreme court judge agreed to hear the petition that was filed by a public interest campaigner called Amit Kumar, on the grounds that organisers have not paid enough tax. &#8220;We will hear &#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":[5262,5340,2326,2839],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19674"}],"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=19674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19675,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19674\/revisions\/19675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}