{"id":2267,"date":"2010-02-09T06:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2010-02-09T06:33:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:33:34","slug":"fia-to-decide-new-team-successors-todt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-to-decide-new-team-successors-todt\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA to decide new team successors &#8211; Todt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">FIA president Jean Todt has confirmed reports that F1 teams may sit out three grands prix in 2010 without penalty.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amid speculation that some of the sport&#8217;s four new teams are struggling to get up and running ahead of next month&#8217;s Bahrain season opener, Bernie Ecclestone hinted at the measure to a British newspaper last weekend.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And he is quoted as saying by France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo that Campos and USF1 are &#8220;asking to miss the first three races&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last World Council the opportunity for a team to not participate in three rounds of the championship, also not consecutively, was granted,&#8221; Todt is quoted as saying by Italy&#8217;s La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed, however, that the new entrant funding promised by Ecclestone may be jeopardised if teams do skip races.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone is pushing hard for the Serbian hopeful Stefan GP to be first in queue to race this year should one of the confirmed teams collapse.<\/p>\n<p>But Todt clarified: &#8220;If a team drops out of the championship, the insertion of a new team is not automatic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is always up to the FIA to decide whether someone is eligible or not,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIA president Jean Todt has confirmed reports that F1 teams may sit out three grands prix in 2010 without penalty. \u00a0 Amid speculation that some of the sport&#8217;s four new teams are struggling to get up and running ahead of next month&#8217;s Bahrain season opener, Bernie Ecclestone hinted at the measure to a British newspaper &#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":[59,327,5262,5300,284,313],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267"}],"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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}