{"id":9000,"date":"2010-10-14T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2010-10-14T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:35:12","slug":"deal-reached-to-stage-russia-gp-in-2014-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/deal-reached-to-stage-russia-gp-in-2014-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal reached to stage Russian GP in 2014 &#8211; Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deal to host at least seven Russian grand prix in Sochi beginning in 2014 has been reached, the country&#8217;s president Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An agreement with the (sport&#8217;s) organising company has been reached,&#8221; he told investors in the Black Sea resort city, according to the state news agency Ria Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone was reportedly also in Sochi to sign the contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to organise the work properly, we should create a management company here, in our country.\u00a0 It should consist of private national companies,&#8221; Putin added.<\/p>\n<p>The report said some of Russia&#8217;s biggest companies, including the state enterprise Rostekhnologii, mobile phone operator Megafon, oil company Lukoil and aluminum giant Rusal will invest in the circuit that could cost $200 million.<\/p>\n<p>Nikolai Fomenko, boss of Marussia, said last month that he planned to bring the Russian sports car maker into F1 in 2012.\u00a0 The company already sponsors the Virgin team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The signing of the agreement to stage a grand prix in Sochi will help put a Russian team in F1,&#8221; said Igor Yermilin, an official of the Russian Motor Racing Federation.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deal to host at least seven Russian grand prix in Sochi beginning in 2014 has been reached, the country&#8217;s president Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday. &#8220;An agreement with the (sport&#8217;s) organising company has been reached,&#8221; he told investors in the Black Sea resort city, according to the state news agency Ria Novosti. F1 chief &#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":[59,5262,5340,2304,1775,827],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000"}],"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=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9004,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}