{"id":6851,"date":"2010-07-08T18:24:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T22:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2010-07-08T18:24:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T22:24:04","slug":"glad-ecclestone-flags-less-teams-for-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/glad-ecclestone-flags-less-teams-for-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Glad&#8217; Ecclestone flags less teams for F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although moves are afoot to fill the 13th team space in pitlane, Bernie Ecclestone thinks formula one could actually lose a team in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>And the F1 chief executive said a drop from 24 to 22 teams would be no bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would be glad,&#8221; the Briton is quoted by Italy&#8217;s La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a long list of teams that want to be in formula one,&#8221; said Ecclestone.\u00a0 &#8220;Whether they have the ability and the resources is another story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As well as F1&#8217;s struggling and underfinanced teams, Ecclestone is also no supporter of FOTA, the teams alliance that last year waged with great influence a bitter political battle with the sport&#8217;s authorities.<\/p>\n<p>A new battle with FOTA is now hotting up, with teams reportedly ordered to remove sponsor-branded trucks from the Silverstone paddock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The teams wanted to divide F1, but now they understand that it is good to give importance to the money that they get (from FOM),&#8221; said Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no space for FOTA&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although moves are afoot to fill the 13th team space in pitlane, Bernie Ecclestone thinks formula one could actually lose a team in 2011. And the F1 chief executive said a drop from 24 to 22 teams would be no bad thing. &#8220;I would be glad,&#8221; the Briton is quoted by Italy&#8217;s La Gazzetta dello &#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":[59,5262,5340,118],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851"}],"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=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6852,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}