{"id":22640,"date":"2014-07-21T07:38:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22640"},"modified":"2014-07-21T07:38:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T11:38:32","slug":"f1-left-to-muse-reasons-for-small-hockenheim-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-left-to-muse-reasons-for-small-hockenheim-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 left to muse reasons for small Hockenheim crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elsewhere in Germany on Sunday, the Nurburgring hosted an event called the &#8216;Truck Grand Prix&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the unwieldy trucks from the grandstands were about 100,000 excited spectators &#8212; about twice the size of the crowd that gathered at Hockenheim for the 2014 German grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Bild am Sonntag asked Bernie Ecclestone where all the fans are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously not here,&#8221; the F1 supremo answered.<\/p>\n<p>As far as some are concerned, notwithstanding the big crowds recently in Austria and Silverstone, the unpopularity of the Hockenheim race should be ringing alarm-bells for F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Austrian grand prix took at least 5,000 spectators from us,&#8221; track boss Georg Seiler insisted to Bild am Sonntag newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the olympic games and the world cup have just taken place.\u00a0 The world cup was the number 1 issue, with newspapers saying hardly anything about formula one,&#8221; he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone agrees: &#8220;Germany won the world cup, and all the sports-mad people bought a ticket to Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re just worn out after so many major sports events,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Both Seiler and Ecclestone also rejected the theory that ticket prices are too high, insisting the prices all over the F1 calendar are similar.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsewhere in Germany on Sunday, the Nurburgring hosted an event called the &#8216;Truck Grand Prix&#8217;. Watching the unwieldy trucks from the grandstands were about 100,000 excited spectators &#8212; about twice the size of the crowd that gathered at Hockenheim for the 2014 German grand prix. Bild am Sonntag asked Bernie Ecclestone where all the fans &#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":[5056,59,5262,5340,1546,1547],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640"}],"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=22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22641,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions\/22641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}