{"id":4449,"date":"2010-04-15T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:36:13","slug":"prodrive-says-no-to-f1-bid-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/prodrive-says-no-to-f1-bid-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Prodrive says no to F1 bid for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Prodrive has not launched a new bid to enter formula one.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thursday was the deadline for potential teams to register interest with the FIA for the 2011 selection process.<\/p>\n<p>But despite Prodrive wanting to secure a grid spot in previous years, David Richards&#8217; company issued a statement saying it will instead concentrate on the world rally championship and sportscar racing.<\/p>\n<p>He said the decision is basically due to finances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taking on the challenge of starting a brand new formula one team, finding the necessary funding and developing the car from scratch is a massive undertaking and not to be underestimated,&#8221; said Richards.<\/p>\n<p>He does not rule out making a grand prix bid in the future, insisting &#8220;we will keep a close eye on developments&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Stefan GP did not respond to an enquiry about whether the Serbian outfit had met the FIA&#8217;s April 15 deadline.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodrive has not launched a new bid to enter formula one.<\/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":[56,5262,5300,5261,5340,54],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449"}],"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=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}