{"id":5083,"date":"2010-05-07T06:36:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T10:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2010-05-07T06:36:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T10:36:25","slug":"epsilon-aims-to-prove-financial-backing-to-fia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/epsilon-aims-to-prove-financial-backing-to-fia\/","title":{"rendered":"Epsilon aims to prove financial backing to FIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epsilon Euskadi&#8217;s next step towards the formula one grid is to prove its ability to contest more than just a single season.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The fact that FIA president Jean Todt, and not a delegation of more junior officials, intended to visit the hopeful outfit&#8217;s base earlier this week is a sign that the team is favoured to win the 13th place on the 2011 grid.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Todt is already convinced of the team&#8217;s technical abilities to organise a credible F1 team, but the FIA is also keen to ensure that new competitors are financially capable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working to find the necessary finances,&#8221; team boss Joan Villadelprat is quoted as saying by France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the budget for 2011 but not thereafter,&#8221; he added in the Barcelona paddock.\u00a0 &#8220;However, a new team needs at least four seasons to be competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I intend to prove to the FIA that we have a strong economic foundation that would allow us to stay in F1 for consecutive years,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epsilon Euskadi&#8217;s next step towards the formula one grid is to prove its ability to contest more than just a single 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":[1093,5262,5300,5261,5340,284,1094],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083"}],"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=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5084,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions\/5084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}