{"id":5865,"date":"2010-05-30T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2010-05-30T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T11:32:29","slug":"track-chiefs-slam-two-day-gp-weekend-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/track-chiefs-slam-two-day-gp-weekend-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Track chiefs slam two-day GP weekend proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bosses of the British grand prix have said they do not support moves to cut Fridays out of formula one race weekends.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->With the annual calendar looking likely to expand beyond 20 races in the next few years, Williams&#8217; Adam Parr said this weekend he is proposing the official event schedules be reduced to just two days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friday is big at Silverstone.\u00a0 (Losing) it would reduce the people coming to stay,&#8221; Richard Phillips, the Northamptonshire circuit&#8217;s managing director, is quoted by the Mirror in the Istanbul Park paddock.<\/p>\n<p>Added Neil England, Silverstone&#8217;s chairman: &#8220;To take a day off seems to be madness.\u00a0 We had 80,000 last year on the Friday, why would anyone destroy that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bosses of the British grand prix have said they do not support moves to cut Fridays out of formula one race weekends.<\/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":[1741,5262,5340,1696,1742,5327],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"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=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5866,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/5866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}