{"id":5816,"date":"2010-05-28T11:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T15:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T15:15:23","slug":"bernie-on-turkey-usa-tyres-and-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bernie-on-turkey-usa-tyres-and-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie on Turkey, USA, tyres and Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone on Friday scotched renewed rumours about the future of the Turkish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It had been reported that the poorly-attended Istanbul Park event could drop off the calendar after its sixth running this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>But on a visit to the media centre, the F1 chief executive told reporters in Turkey not to believe everything they read.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Briton Ecclestone said talks are already underway for a proposed 10-year extension to the current deal.<\/p>\n<p>According to Germany&#8217;s Motorsport-Magazin.com, he was also asked about whether Monticello might join Austin for a second US round on a future F1 calendar, and he would not rule out the prospect.<\/p>\n<p>And amid rumours an announcement confirming Pirelli as F1&#8217;s next tyre supplier is now imminent, Ecclestone admitted the sport is edging closer to a decision.<\/p>\n<p>He also said F1 might have to call off this year&#8217;s inaugural South Korean grand prix if the armies of the rogue North roll in.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the latest accounts for F1&#8217;s owners CVC Capital Partners were issued on Friday, showing Ecclestone is paid $5.8 million per year.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone on Friday scotched renewed rumours about the future of the Turkish grand prix.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,1404,1498],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816"}],"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=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}