{"id":29848,"date":"2015-06-08T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=29848"},"modified":"2015-06-08T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T23:02:00","slug":"marko-blames-f1-for-smaller-austria-gp-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/marko-blames-f1-for-smaller-austria-gp-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Marko blames F1 for smaller Austria GP crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is struggling to fill the grandstands ahead of its second race as a formula one race promoter.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the energy drink company achieved a full house of 95,000 spectators for race day at the Austrian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>But the local news agency APA says only 60-70,000 spectators are expected at the Red Bull Ring next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull official Dr Helmut Marko is in no doubt as to the reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the overall situation in formula one (to blame),&#8221; he said in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have this incredible dominance of Mercedes which has taken away the tension.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marko said the current generation of cars is also not &#8220;spectacular&#8221; or &#8220;loud&#8221; enough, with F1 officials now regularly meeting to discuss how to make the cars faster for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>But Austrian Marko insisted: &#8220;Everyone is talking too much and doing too little.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone thinks more about how to get his own advantage than what is really good for the sport,&#8221; said Marko.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is struggling to fill the grandstands ahead of its second race as a formula one race promoter. Last year, the energy drink company achieved a full house of 95,000 spectators for race day at the Austrian grand prix. But the local news agency APA says only 60-70,000 spectators are expected at the Red &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[3082,1628,5262,5340,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29848"}],"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=29848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29849,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29848\/revisions\/29849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}