{"id":2676,"date":"2010-02-24T06:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T11:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2010-02-24T06:38:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T11:38:47","slug":"airline-qantas-to-title-sponsor-australian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/airline-qantas-to-title-sponsor-australian-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline Qantas to title sponsor Australian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Qantas has been named as the new title sponsor for the Australian grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of ING&#8217;s departure from the sport, it was feared that the Melbourne race would not locate a funding replacement for the Dutch bank.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 2009 race at Albert Park recorded a controversial $40m loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We greatly value the involvement of all our commercial sponsors &#8212; their support reduces the cost of this event to the Victorian government,&#8221; said major events minister Tim Holding.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Grand Prix Corporation on Wednesday said Qantas, whose association with F1 in the country dates back to the 80s, will be the naming sponsor in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to reaffirm our support for this global sporting event, reaching formula one fans worldwide,&#8221; said Alan Joyce, chief executive of Australia&#8217;s national airline.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas was also the Australian GP title sponsor between 1997 and 2001.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas has been named as the new title sponsor for the Australian grand prix. \u00a0 In the wake of ING&#8217;s departure from the sport, it was feared that the Melbourne race would not locate a funding replacement for the Dutch bank.<\/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":[807,5339,805,5262,808,806,804],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676"}],"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=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}