{"id":2251,"date":"2010-02-08T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2010-02-08T18:25:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:25:45","slug":"new-teams-may-miss-3-races-without-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-teams-may-miss-3-races-without-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"New teams may miss 3 races without penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">F1&#8217;s struggling new teams could miss the season opener next month and escape penalty.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously, failing to contest a round of the world championship for a reason other than &#8216;force majeure&#8217; resulted in a total loss of rights and exclusion from the sport.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But under the new version of the Concorde Agreement, teams may now miss three races before their official entry is handed back to the FIA, according to a report in the British newspaper Sunday Express.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we won&#8217;t see Campos and I don&#8217;t think we will see the Americans (USF1),&#8221; F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old Briton has made it clear he would prefer an entry to pass into the hands of the Serbian hopeful Stefan GP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have got the money from the Serbian government, I&#8217;ve spoken to the prime minister,&#8221; Ecclestone said.<\/p>\n<p>But sporting director Peter Windsor denied USF1 are in trouble, and the Melbourne newspaper The Age said a teammate for Jose Maria Lopez is expected to be announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things are going well,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a few glitches as you would expect.\u00a0 Nothing&#8217;s ever smooth in formula one and it&#8217;s a very, very late start to the whole programme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s struggling new teams could miss the season opener next month and escape penalty. \u00a0 Previously, failing to contest a round of the world championship for a reason other than &#8216;force majeure&#8217; resulted in a total loss of rights and exclusion from the sport.<\/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":[59,354,5262,5300,248,255,313],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}