{"id":8922,"date":"2010-10-09T09:27:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T13:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2010-10-09T09:27:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T13:27:57","slug":"ecclestone-waits-for-russia-to-sign-gp-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-waits-for-russia-to-sign-gp-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone waits for Russia to sign GP deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone on Saturday said he is only now waiting for organisers of a Russian grand prix in 2014 to sign a contract.<\/p>\n<p>A report in the Kommersant daily said the F1 chief executive has agreed terms for a race in the resort city Sochi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The document has still not been signed but when the appropriate person from Russia signs it, I will sign it the next day,&#8221; Ecclestone is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the only potential stumbling block is the annual promotion fee, apparently comparable to the approximately $40 million paid by Singapore and Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>An official in the deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak&#8217;s office confirmed the receipt of the contract from Ecclestone, according to AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>In other circuit news, photographs have emerged showing that kerbs, barriers and the crucial top layer of asphalt have been laid in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>And a new circuit in the north of Spain, Circuito de Navarra, has received a T1 homologation by the FIA, making it eligible for formula one testing.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone on Saturday said he is only now waiting for organisers of a Russian grand prix in 2014 to sign a contract. A report in the Kommersant daily said the F1 chief executive has agreed terms for a race in the resort city Sochi. &#8220;The document has still not been signed but when the &#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":[59,5262,5340,2304],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922"}],"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=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8923,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/8923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}