{"id":4959,"date":"2010-05-04T06:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T10:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2010-05-04T06:37:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T10:37:58","slug":"todt-to-visit-2011-hopeful-epsilon-euskadi-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/todt-to-visit-2011-hopeful-epsilon-euskadi-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Todt to visit 2011 hopeful Epsilon Euskadi on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epsilon Euskadi could be set to take another step towards becoming F1&#8217;s thirteenth and final team for the 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We reported in March that the Spanish outfit would apply for the berth following the FIA&#8217;s invitation for expressions of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The initial process ended on 15 April, with interested teams to lodge full applications by the end of June followed by &#8220;due diligence leading to a decision in July&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It emerged on Monday that FIA president Jean Todt was set to travel to Spain on Tuesday for a meeting with the Spanish sports minister Jaime Lissavetsky and the head of Spain&#8217;s motor racing federation Carlos Gracia.<\/p>\n<p>A press conference is then scheduled for the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s El Pais newspaper reports that Todt will visit Epsilon Euskadi&#8217;s Azkoitia headquarters in view of the team making its formula one debut in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Epsilon Euskadi, involved in junior single seater categories as well as Le Mans with a prototype car, applied to make its F1 debut this year but was beaten to the places by USF1, HRT, Lotus, Virgin and Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>Its boss is Joan Villadelprat, who for decades worked in F1 with McLaren, Ferrari, Benetton, Tyrrell and Prost.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epsilon Euskadi could be set to take another step towards becoming F1&#8217;s thirteenth and final team for the 2011 season.<\/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":[857,1093,5262,5300,5261,5340,284,1094],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959"}],"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=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}