{"id":21102,"date":"2014-02-26T07:08:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21102"},"modified":"2014-02-26T07:08:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T12:08:23","slug":"us-track-boss-says-ecclestone-foolish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/us-track-boss-says-ecclestone-foolish\/","title":{"rendered":"US track boss says Ecclestone &#8216;foolish&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American motor racing personality has accused F1&#8217;s Bernie Ecclestone of being repeatedly &#8220;foolish&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Gossage, the president of the Texas Motor Speedway, has blasted the F1 chief executive for scheduling this year&#8217;s US grand prix on the same November date as the major Nascar sprint cup race in the same state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I absolutely think it&#8217;s foolish,&#8221; Gossage is quoted by AP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t say I was surprised because Bernie Ecclestone does a lot of foolish things,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just not smart,&#8221; said Gossage.\u00a0 &#8220;There&#8217;s 52 weeks in the year.\u00a0 But that was the only weekend that formula one could make it work in Austin?\u00a0 Give me a break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American motor racing personality has accused F1&#8217;s Bernie Ecclestone of being repeatedly &#8220;foolish&#8221;. Eddie Gossage, the president of the Texas Motor Speedway, has blasted the F1 chief executive for scheduling this year&#8217;s US grand prix on the same November date as the major Nascar sprint cup race in the same state. &#8220;I absolutely think &#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":[59,1718,5262,5340,12,1719,929],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102"}],"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=21102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21103,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions\/21103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}