{"id":21145,"date":"2014-03-03T06:58:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T11:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21145"},"modified":"2014-03-03T06:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T11:58:40","slug":"new-f1-deal-for-melbourne-will-happen-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-f1-deal-for-melbourne-will-happen-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"New F1 deal for Melbourne &#8216;will happen&#8217; &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone says he is confident Melbourne is staying on the F1 calendar beyond its 2015 contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; he told the Herald Sun newspaper.\u00a0 &#8220;Sure, sure, sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The F1 chief executive said a new contract will be signed &#8220;as soon as we get the lawyers sorted&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone&#8217;s comments follow reports from within the state government that race organisers are pushing hard for a better financial deal.<\/p>\n<p>But the 83-year-old Briton insisted: &#8220;It will happen, don&#8217;t worry about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone said the government is no longer arguing with F1 over money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s all been sorted,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s just the bits and pieces.\u00a0 It will happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone says he is confident Melbourne is staying on the F1 calendar beyond its 2015 contract. &#8220;Yes,&#8221; he told the Herald Sun newspaper.\u00a0 &#8220;Sure, sure, sure.&#8221; The F1 chief executive said a new contract will be signed &#8220;as soon as we get the lawyers sorted&#8221;. Ecclestone&#8217;s comments follow reports from within the state government &#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":[59,5262,5340,2771],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21145"}],"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=21145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21146,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21145\/revisions\/21146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}