{"id":22608,"date":"2014-07-18T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22608"},"modified":"2014-07-18T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T21:05:12","slug":"f1-in-shock-as-plane-crash-piles-doubt-on-russia-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-in-shock-as-plane-crash-piles-doubt-on-russia-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 in shock as plane crash piles doubt on Russia GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The F1 paddock in Hockenheim has joined the rest of the world in shock at the terrible news emerging from violence-torn Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 300 people are dead after a Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed, apparently after the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down by a missile fired by pro-Moscow Russian separatists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The news has really got to me,&#8221; Sauber reserve driver Giedo van der Garde, a Dutchman, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been on a MH flight from Amsterdam to KL often.\u00a0 Thoughts go out to everyone involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shocking development will put more pressure on organisers of October&#8217;s inaugural Russian grand prix, who were already fending off rumours the deepening Crimean crisis could force the race&#8217;s cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>At least 27 Australians were on the doomed flight MH17, and federal opposition leader Bill Shorten has described their deaths as &#8220;murder&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister Tony Abbott, meanwhile, called on Russia to &#8220;fully cooperation in this investigation&#8221;, even though his counterpart Vladimir Putin is clearly blaming Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Undoubtedly,&#8221; he said, &#8220;the state on whose territory this happened is responsible for this awful tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F1 paddock in Hockenheim has joined the rest of the world in shock at the terrible news emerging from violence-torn Ukraine. Almost 300 people are dead after a Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed, apparently after the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down by a missile fired by pro-Moscow Russian &#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":[5262,5050,5340,2286,2304,827],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22608"}],"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=22608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22609,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22608\/revisions\/22609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}