{"id":4510,"date":"2010-04-16T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2010-04-16T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:14:08","slug":"china-to-stay-on-f1-calendar-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/china-to-stay-on-f1-calendar-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"China to stay on F1 calendar &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bernie Ecclestone on Friday said China is staying on the F1 calendar beyond this weekend&#8217;s event.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The huge Shanghai facility has been criticised due to its low spectator numbers and lack of atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>One section of vast grandstands this weekend is spelling out a local &#8216;Made With China&#8217; branding message, due to the low chance they will need to accommodate actual people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The contract is ongoing here,&#8221; Ecclestone said.\u00a0 &#8220;We renew every five years.\u00a0 It will go on,&#8221; F1 chief executive Ecclestone told reporters in the vast concrete paddock on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton said it is a &#8220;shame&#8221; that at an impressive venue built for 200,000 spectators looks almost completely empty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve not promoted it properly, it&#8217;s as simple as that.\u00a0 If you were in Shanghai, you wouldn&#8217;t even know there was a race here,&#8221; said Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted, however, that the government is &#8220;fully supportive&#8221; of formula one.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, with India scheduled to join the calendar next year, and Ecclestone wanting new races in New York and Russia, the 79-year-old said he is not about to axe a raft of established events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not dropping anything,&#8221; Ecclestone said, laughing that the F1 fraternity should be &#8220;getting ready for 25&#8221; races in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone on Friday said China is staying on the F1 calendar beyond this weekend&#8217;s event.<\/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":[59,1275,1270,1221,5262,5300,5261,5340,1239,5368,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510"}],"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=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}