{"id":2535,"date":"2010-02-19T06:56:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2010-02-19T06:56:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:56:22","slug":"richards-not-surprised-by-new-teams-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/richards-not-surprised-by-new-teams-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Richards not surprised by new teams&#8217; troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">David Richards says he is not surprised to hear about the problems being encountered by F1&#8217;s confirmed new teams.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although a solution to Campos&#8217; financial problems appears to have been found and is set to be announced, it has been reported this week that the death knell is tolling for USF1.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prodrive and Aston Martin chief Richards&#8217; application to join the 2010 grid was turned down, but he insists he had the right &#8220;infrastructure and finance&#8221; all in place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not too surprised at how difficult some of the teams are finding the challenge of both building the technical infrastructure and finding the finance to launch their F1 programmes,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by thesun.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the hopeful outfit Stefan GP, Richards warned that he is not ready to step in at the last moment if some of the confirmed teams drop out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now it is not practical for us to consider any involvement this year but we are certainly ready to consider any future opportunities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Richards says he is not surprised to hear about the problems being encountered by F1&#8217;s confirmed new teams. \u00a0 Although a solution to Campos&#8217; financial problems appears to have been found and is set to be announced, it has been reported this week that the death knell is tolling for USF1.<\/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":[146,56,5262,54],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535"}],"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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}