{"id":4782,"date":"2010-04-26T06:23:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2010-04-26T06:23:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:23:40","slug":"critical-hill-now-says-new-silverstone-a-corker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/critical-hill-now-says-new-silverstone-a-corker\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Hill now says new Silverstone &#8216;a corker&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Less than three months after slamming Silverstone&#8217;s new formula one layout, Damon Hill is now singing its praises.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 1996 world champion, who is president of the circuit-owning British Racing Drivers&#8217; Club, said in February that the new &#8216;Arena&#8217; section is a &#8220;frustrating compromise&#8221; that risks &#8220;destroying the essence&#8221; of the historic venue.<\/p>\n<p>But Hill is now quoted by the Daily Mail as saying: &#8220;We think we have produced a racetrack of the future.\u00a0 It looks like it has the potential to be a real corker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new 760m loop &#8211; effectively two new infield straights in the place of the famous &#8216;Bridge&#8217; corner section &#8211; was originally designed for MotoGP but will also be used for July&#8217;s British grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that the cost of the changes &#8211; less than $8 million &#8211; will be more than offset by the additional tickets that can now be sold.<\/p>\n<p>It will be officially opened by the Duke of York on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hill said he hopes &#8220;we have designed a challenging, exciting track for them (the drivers) that will make them like racing here more than ever&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than three months after slamming Silverstone&#8217;s new formula one layout, Damon Hill is now singing its praises.<\/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":[1055,5262,5261,5340,5327],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782"}],"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=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}