{"id":8304,"date":"2010-09-10T06:55:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8304"},"modified":"2010-09-10T06:55:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T10:55:41","slug":"losing-two-teams-would-be-just-fine-for-f1-parr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/losing-two-teams-would-be-just-fine-for-f1-parr\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing two teams would be &#8216;just fine&#8217; for F1 &#8211; Parr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12 teams is enough for formula one, and 10 would also be a healthy number, according to Williams&#8217; chairman Adam Parr.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacques Villeneuve\/Durango bid, as well as the Spanish Le Mans team Epsilon Euskadi, have been turned down by F1&#8217;s governing body after applying for the final 13th spot on the 2011 grid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we should have 13,&#8221; Parr is quoted by the Texas newspaper American Statesman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that 12 is a maximum and personally I think we should have a maximum of 10 teams,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the F1 grid is composed of 12 teams, but there are fears about the financial situations suffered by several of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a very real possibility that we could lose a couple of teams,&#8221; Parr admitted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of the evolution of formula one is that teams come in and they go.\u00a0 Since 1970 we&#8217;ve lost, I think, 55 teams.\u00a0 It&#8217;s sort of a brutal competition and not everyone makes it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If things fall out so that we have 10 teams competing next year, personally I think that would be just fine,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 teams is enough for formula one, and 10 would also be a healthy number, according to Williams&#8217; chairman Adam Parr. The Jacques Villeneuve\/Durango bid, as well as the Spanish Le Mans team Epsilon Euskadi, have been turned down by F1&#8217;s governing body after applying for the final 13th spot on the 2011 grid. &#8220;I &#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":[1451,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304"}],"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=8304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8305,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions\/8305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}