{"id":3080,"date":"2010-03-12T07:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2010-03-12T07:05:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:05:26","slug":"ecclestone-says-rome-will-not-replace-monza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-says-rome-will-not-replace-monza\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone says Rome will not replace Monza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bernie Ecclestone has given his personal assurance that Rome is not set to replace historic Monza on the formula one calendar.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry: the grand prix of Italy is staying at Monza,&#8221; Enrico Gelpi, president of the Italian sanctioning body ACI, is quoted as saying by Il Messaggero.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gelpi sought out Ecclestone, the F1 chief executive, at the meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Bahrain on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>His informal meeting followed news that Ecclestone, 79, is set to add a Rome street race to the calendar in 2013, with the Italian capital rumoured to be willing to pay significantly more than Monza for the hosting rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ecclestone&#8217;s assurance, as we have repeatedly confirmed, is that there has never existed the possibility to separate Monza from the Italian grand prix,&#8221; said Gelpi.<\/p>\n<p>Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno said: &#8220;Ecclestone&#8217;s clarification confirms what we have said for some time.\u00a0 There is no competition between the two races (Monza and Rome).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has given his personal assurance that Rome is not set to replace historic Monza on the formula one calendar. \u00a0 &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry: the grand prix of Italy is staying at Monza,&#8221; Enrico Gelpi, president of the Italian sanctioning body ACI, is quoted as saying by Il Messaggero.<\/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":[59,5262,384,888],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080"}],"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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}