{"id":8715,"date":"2010-09-30T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8715"},"modified":"2010-09-30T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:53:00","slug":"no-further-delay-after-korea-gp-construction-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-further-delay-after-korea-gp-construction-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"No further delay after Korea GP construction accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An accident at the site of next month&#8217;s inaugural Korean grand prix is not expected to further delay completion of the Yeongam venue.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Wednesday, it emerged that a crane had tipped over on the main straight, with the overloaded arm crashing into a grandstand.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports indicated that the damage was relatively minor.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, race organisers Korea Auto Valley Operation (KAVO) confirmed on the same day that a date has now been set for completion of the track and final inspection by F1&#8217;s governing body.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA will visit the venue next Monday week (October 11) to approve it for the grand prix later in the month, KAVO said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will rush to complete work and people will see a complete circuit when they (the FIA) conduct a final inspection,&#8221; said an official.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean organisers have signed a seven year contract for the race to be held 300 kilometres south of Seoul.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accident at the site of next month&#8217;s inaugural Korean grand prix is not expected to further delay completion of the Yeongam venue. Late on Wednesday, it emerged that a crane had tipped over on the main straight, with the overloaded arm crashing into a grandstand. Media reports indicated that the damage was relatively minor. &#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":[5262,5300,5340,1282],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715"}],"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=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8716,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}