{"id":9061,"date":"2010-10-19T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T12:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2010-10-19T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T12:10:14","slug":"briatore-flags-2013-as-year-for-f1-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/briatore-flags-2013-as-year-for-f1-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Briatore flags 2013 as year for F1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having earlier flagged a possible return to F1 in the future, Flavio Briatore seems now to have set a definite date.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We shall see how my return to F1 goes in 2013,&#8221; the former Renault team boss, who renegotiated his &#8216;crashgate&#8217; ban with the FIA, said in an interview with the Times of India.<\/p>\n<p>Present at several races this year and still closely aligned with Bernie Ecclestone, the potential roles for Briatore &#8211; perhaps with Pirelli, Ferrari or alongside the F1 chief executive &#8211; are the subject of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have drawn a line under the role of team boss, but that does not mean I am saying goodbye to F1.\u00a0 Far from it,&#8221; he recently told the Journal du Dimanche.<\/p>\n<p>Briatore, 60, has indicated he will focus on the sport&#8217;s &#8220;commercial&#8221; or &#8220;business&#8221; side, triggering rumours that Ecclestone sees the Italian as his successor.<\/p>\n<p>But although contemplating his 80th birthday later this month, Ecclestone insists he is not planning to step aside by 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he will still be running the sport at 90, the Briton told the Guardian newspaper: &#8220;Yes!\u00a0 The way I feel at the moment, why stop?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having earlier flagged a possible return to F1 in the future, Flavio Briatore seems now to have set a definite date. &#8220;We shall see how my return to F1 goes in 2013,&#8221; the former Renault team boss, who renegotiated his &#8216;crashgate&#8217; ban with the FIA, said in an interview with the Times of India. Present &#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":[59,5262,252,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061"}],"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=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9062,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/9062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}