{"id":4826,"date":"2010-04-28T06:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2010-04-28T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T10:48:00","slug":"valencia-gp-future-not-in-doubt-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/valencia-gp-future-not-in-doubt-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia GP future not in doubt &#8211; official"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The future of the European grand prix at Valencia is not in doubt, Spanish motor racing chief Carlos Gracia insists.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the second running of the race around the port city&#8217;s streets last August, attendance was so low that it was rumoured Valencia might soon drop off the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Promoter Valmor&#8217;s race contract runs until 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But members of the F1 circus as well as spectators have bemoaned a lack of atmosphere at the venue, and last year&#8217;s 57-lap race staged not even a single conventional overtaking manoeuvre.<\/p>\n<p>Within Spain, it has been rumoured that even Valmor have been recently less than enthusiastic about the future of the event.<\/p>\n<p>But Gracia, the head of Spain&#8217;s motor racing federation, said he is hearing a different message from Valmor after a recent meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year they were not positive but now they have told me that they are fulfilling religiously all the years they have left on the contract,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by AS newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of the European grand prix at Valencia is not in doubt, Spanish motor racing chief Carlos Gracia insists.<\/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":[857,5262,5261,5340,1448],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826"}],"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=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}