{"id":26622,"date":"2015-01-23T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=26622"},"modified":"2015-01-23T07:29:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T12:29:14","slug":"ecclestone-involved-in-fias-honda-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-involved-in-fias-honda-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone involved in FIA&#8217;s Honda U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has admitted he was involved in the FIA&#8217;s U-turn over allowing Honda into the new 2015 engine &#8216;unfreeze&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the governing body had locked McLaren&#8217;s new works partner out of the decision to let 2014 suppliers Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault deploy their development &#8216;tokens&#8217; beyond a start-of-season deadline.<\/p>\n<p>But the FIA eventually decreed that Honda can in fact do a limited amount of developing in 2015, and F1 supremo Ecclestone says he was involved in the turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We discussed the issue with the FIA,&#8221; Ecclestone is quoted by Russia&#8217;s f1news.ru, &#8220;and I said that we have to use a slightly different approach because otherwise no one else would want to come into the championship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has admitted he was involved in the FIA&#8217;s U-turn over allowing Honda into the new 2015 engine &#8216;unfreeze&#8217;. Initially, the governing body had locked McLaren&#8217;s new works partner out of the decision to let 2014 suppliers Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault deploy their development &#8216;tokens&#8217; beyond a start-of-season deadline. But the FIA eventually decreed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,5262,5300,5340,4374],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622"}],"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=26622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26623,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions\/26623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}