{"id":8334,"date":"2010-09-11T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8334"},"modified":"2010-09-11T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T15:07:08","slug":"bulgarian-minister-meets-ecclestone-at-monza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bulgarian-minister-meets-ecclestone-at-monza\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian minister meets Ecclestone at Monza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria demonstrated it is serious about joining the F1 calendar by sending a senior government minister to the Italian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>A scandal erupted recently after reports said an Abu Dhabi company was going to fund a formula one track for the southeast European country.<\/p>\n<p>The Abu Dhabi interests reacted angrily, declaring the announcement incorrect and inaccurate and vowing to cancel all its Bulgarian investments.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the Sofia news agency Novinite, Bulgarian economy minister Traicho Traikov was trackside on Saturday at Italy&#8217;s Autodromo Nazionale di Monza.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly met with F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, about Bulgaria hosting a future round of the world championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone &#8220;voiced interest in that idea and committed to visit Bulgaria in the coming weeks to familiarise himself with details of the project&#8221;, said the report.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria demonstrated it is serious about joining the F1 calendar by sending a senior government minister to the Italian grand prix. A scandal erupted recently after reports said an Abu Dhabi company was going to fund a formula one track for the southeast European country. The Abu Dhabi interests reacted angrily, declaring the announcement incorrect &#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":[59,2190,5262,5340,384,2191],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334"}],"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=8334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8335,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions\/8335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}