{"id":21039,"date":"2014-02-20T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21039"},"modified":"2014-08-27T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T00:13:10","slug":"formula-e-to-make-few-quid-then-collapse-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/formula-e-to-make-few-quid-then-collapse-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula E to make &#8216;few quid&#8217; then collapse &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers of the new Formula E series expect to make some quick money and then see the concept collapse.<\/p>\n<p>That is the view of F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who despite the involvement of several well-known figures, teams and drivers, thinks the FIA category involving near-silent electric-powered single seaters racing in cities including Los Angeles, Berlin and London is ultimately doomed to fail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For them (the organisers) it&#8217;s a commercial thing,&#8221; Ecclestone told Zone One Radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One or two of them are going to make a few quid and that will be the end of it,&#8221; the 83-year-old Briton told interviewer Matthew Layton at the recent Zoom photographic charity auction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t see it ever working.\u00a0 I know how much it costs to put a street race together,&#8221; Ecclestone said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers of the new Formula E series expect to make some quick money and then see the concept collapse. That is the view of F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who despite the involvement of several well-known figures, teams and drivers, thinks the FIA category involving near-silent electric-powered single seaters racing in cities including Los Angeles, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,4625],"tags":[59,5262,5300,5453,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039"}],"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=21039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23060,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions\/23060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}