{"id":4447,"date":"2010-04-15T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2010-04-15T07:02:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:02:17","slug":"tilke-denies-doubting-korea-construction-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/tilke-denies-doubting-korea-construction-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilke denies doubting Korea construction &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bernie Ecclestone on Thursday said there is &#8220;no doubt&#8221; Korea will be ready to host its inaugural grand prix in late October.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Local promoters Korea Auto Valley Operation (KAVO) have already insisted that construction of the 5.62km track in Yeongam County is on time, after designer Hermann Tilke expressed doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Tilke was quoted as saying by the German news magazine Focus: &#8220;For the first time I am concerned that a (Tilke) circuit is not going to be finished on time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that concerned F1 chief executive Ecclestone travelled straight from Malaysia to South Korea earlier this month, but actually he is at the site this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton said on Thursday: &#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken to Tilke and he denies saying it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone told reporters that he is &#8220;absolutely sure&#8221; the circuit will be ready on time.\u00a0 &#8220;No doubt at all,&#8221; added the 79-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone on Thursday said there is &#8220;no doubt&#8221; Korea will be ready to host its inaugural grand prix in late October.<\/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":[59,5262,5261,5340,875],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447"}],"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=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4448,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}