{"id":5100,"date":"2010-05-07T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T19:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2010-05-07T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T19:15:30","slug":"no-german-gp-sellout-yet-despite-schumacher-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-german-gp-sellout-yet-despite-schumacher-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"No German GP sellout yet despite Schumacher factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July&#8217;s German grand prix is not yet sold out, despite the Hockenheim race being held for the first time in two years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Michael Schumacher has made his return from three years of retirement, while there are five other German drivers on the 2010 grid.<\/p>\n<p>In the Barcelona paddock, it was announced by track boss Georg Seiler that 55,000 tickets for race-day Sunday have been sold to date.<\/p>\n<p>But he is quoted by the German news agency SID as confirming that ticket sales did increase in the wake of Schumacher&#8217;s decision to return, meaning that the event should break even in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, 62,000 spectators attended the Hockenheim race.<\/p>\n<p>But a capacity crowd would be 75,000, and Seiler revealed that 120,000 tickets could be sold if temporary grandstands are erected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope Schumacher starts to win races.\u00a0 Then with six German drivers we would be looking at a full house &#8212; anything else would be incomprehensible,&#8221; he admitted.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July&#8217;s German grand prix is not yet sold out, despite the Hockenheim race being held for the first time in two years.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,1546,1548,1547,34,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100"}],"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=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5101,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}