{"id":4881,"date":"2010-05-01T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2010-05-01T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:21:39","slug":"ecclestone-todt-in-morocco-for-touring-car-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/f1-general\/ecclestone-todt-in-morocco-for-touring-car-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone, Todt, in Morocco for touring car race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of F1&#8217;s most powerful figures have appeared in the paddock of the Marrakech street circuit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The temporary track in Morocco is hosting its second round of the FIA&#8217;s World Touring Car Championship this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone was shown around by series promoter Marcello Lotti and also event promoter Marrakech Grand Prix chief Aly Horma.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to say that I was impressed by the track and facilities they have built, which are very nice and suit the WTCC well.\u00a0 My congratulations to the event promoter,&#8221; said the 79-year-old Briton.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the north African country this weekend is FIA president Jean Todt.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s round of the WTCC was the first international car race in Morocco since the 1958 Moroccan grand prix in Casablanca.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of F1&#8217;s most powerful figures have appeared in the paddock of the Marrakech street circuit.<\/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":[53],"tags":[59,5262,5261,5340,284,1471,1469,1470,1473,1474,1472],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881"}],"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=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}