{"id":6272,"date":"2010-06-12T08:02:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T12:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6272"},"modified":"2010-06-12T08:02:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T12:02:31","slug":"f1-shouldnt-have-left-sell-out-montreal-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-shouldnt-have-left-sell-out-montreal-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 &#8216;shouldn&#8217;t have left&#8217; sell-out Montreal &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s Canadian grand prix is now officially a sell-out.<\/p>\n<p>The popular event dropped off the calendar last year due to a squabble between F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone and then promoter Normand Legault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We felt sorry (to leave), but at the end of the day, as an organiser, you have to pay the price,&#8221; said Mercedes&#8217; Norbert Haug at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But a new deal with new promoter Francois Dumontier means Canada is now back in F1, and Ecclestone on Friday admitted he is happy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is wonderful to be back in Montreal, and to be honest, we shouldn&#8217;t have left in the first place!&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dumontier said earlier that he is expecting 300,000 spectators to attend over the three days.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there are no more tickets available to buy, but those now attempting to attend this year&#8217;s event are being invited to book a seat for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very pleased with the public response,&#8221; Dumontier said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s Canadian grand prix is now officially a sell-out. The popular event dropped off the calendar last year due to a squabble between F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone and then promoter Normand Legault. &#8220;We felt sorry (to leave), but at the end of the day, as an organiser, you have to pay the price,&#8221; &#8230;<\/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":[59,1298,5262,5340,1302,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272"}],"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=6272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6273,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}