{"id":4599,"date":"2010-04-18T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T13:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2010-04-18T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T13:10:27","slug":"f1-freight-going-nowhere-fast-after-chinese-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-freight-going-nowhere-fast-after-chinese-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 freight going nowhere fast after Chinese GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">F1&#8217;s many tonnes of freight are going nowhere fast.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the Chinese grand prix, the teams are packing up their cars and equipment and delivering it into the pitlane as per usual on a Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The gear will then be moved to the local international airport by Formula One Management, with the sport&#8217;s freight managed by Alan Woollard.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed on Sunday that the equipment &#8211; enough to fill six 747 jets &#8211; is not likely to be making the return flight in a hurry due to the closed airports across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until the airports open we&#8217;ll be staying here,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;Hopefully we&#8217;ll get out of here by the end of the week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Woollard admitted that if the delay goes on beyond that, the freight might be flown straight to Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh had explained earlier that a delay of that sort might affect planned car developments for the Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not so much worried about the people because we will find a way home, but we have got to get the cars back,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s many tonnes of freight are going nowhere fast.<\/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":[1381,1275,1270,1221,5262,5261,5340,927,1239,5368,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599"}],"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=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4600,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}