{"id":2586,"date":"2010-02-22T06:59:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T11:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2010-02-22T06:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T11:58:48","slug":"indonesia-not-ready-for-grand-prix-bid-todt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/indonesia-not-ready-for-grand-prix-bid-todt\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia not ready for grand prix bid &#8211; Todt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Indonesia is not ready to push for a round of the formula one world championship, Jean Todt said last week.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the FIA president&#8217;s recent visit to the fourth most populous country in the world, rumours suggested Indonesia might be contemplating joining the sport&#8217;s annual calendar in the near future.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s premier circuit is the permanent Sental track, located 42 kilometres from the Jakarta toll gate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, F1 is the pinnacle of motor sport and I must say it&#8217;s encouraging to see the evolution of the sport in the region of Asia,&#8221; Todt said during an interview with the Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman said that despite F1 featuring Asian rounds in Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore and now Korea, Indonesia should instead target a round of the World Touring Car Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I myself went to the Sentul (International) Circuit, and it was definitely not the standard formula one circuit, but I&#8217;m sure with some renovation, this circuit could be and host the touring car championship,&#8221; said Todt.<\/p>\n<p>He said F1 is not a feasible goal for Indonesia within the next five to ten years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, not now,&#8221; Todt confirmed.\u00a0 &#8220;But the World Touring Car Championship is (feasible).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It depends from where you start, it&#8217;s a step-by-step progress.\u00a0 If you want to make the F1 race you need a standard circuit.\u00a0 At the moment you do not have one of that standard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia is not ready to push for a round of the formula one world championship, Jean Todt said last week. \u00a0 During the FIA president&#8217;s recent visit to the fourth most populous country in the world, rumours suggested Indonesia might be contemplating joining the sport&#8217;s annual calendar in the near future.<\/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":[5262,5300,765,284,766],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586"}],"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=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}