{"id":3248,"date":"2010-03-14T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T17:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2010-03-14T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T18:20:38","slug":"drivers-go-missing-on-bahrain-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/drivers-go-missing-on-bahrain-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers go missing on Bahrain grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Many F1 drivers were missing from the grid in the minutes before Sunday&#8217;s season opening Bahrain GP.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Global interest in the new 2010 season had been sky high, but reporters, television cameras and VIPs searched hard to locate F1&#8217;s most famous faces in the tense moments of preparation prior to the formation lap.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It emerges that the situation was triggered by Bernie Ecclestone, who tightly controls the distribution of pre-race grid passes.<\/p>\n<p>With an apparent shortage for the Sakhir grid, the F1 chief executive decided that the drivers&#8217; physiotherapists and trainers would be the ones to skip the pre-race routine.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers were unhappy with the decision but Briton Ecclestone, 79, refused to budge, meaning many of them opted to get out of their cars after the pit-to-grid lap and return to the garages for physical attention.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many F1 drivers were missing from the grid in the minutes before Sunday&#8217;s season opening Bahrain GP. \u00a0 Global interest in the new 2010 season had been sky high, but reporters, television cameras and VIPs searched hard to locate F1&#8217;s most famous faces in the tense moments of preparation prior to the formation lap.<\/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":[879,59,5262,919],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248"}],"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=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}