{"id":5415,"date":"2010-05-15T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5415"},"modified":"2010-05-15T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T13:50:47","slug":"virgin-not-dropping-out-of-f1-branson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-not-dropping-out-of-f1-branson\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin not dropping out of F1 &#8211; Branson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson on Saturday insisted Virgin Racing is not in danger of dropping out of formula one.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After Bernie Ecclestone hinted that one of the new teams is in trouble, HRT&#8217;s Jose Ramon Carabante as well as boss Colin Kolles insisted the F1 chief executive was not talking about the Spanish outfit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m surprised Bernie said what he did,&#8221; billionaire Branson said in Monaco.\u00a0 &#8220;He might know something about the other teams I don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Briton told the Daily Mail that Virgin has sponsors on board and will definitely &#8220;go all the way to the end of the season, and hopefully for many seasons yet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Branson, however, is only the naming sponsor of the rebranded Manor team, and Virgin has struggled both for pace and reliability so far in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>But he insisted: &#8220;If they (the team) continue the kind of progress we&#8217;ve made to date, we will be delighted and will continue to support it, and there&#8217;s no reason why we shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We went into this with our eyes open and we plan to stick with it as long as they get other sponsors on board, which they are managing to do,&#8221; added Branson.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson on Saturday insisted Virgin Racing is not in danger of dropping out of formula one.<\/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":[59,602,5262,5261,5340,695,1564,817,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415"}],"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=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}