{"id":9100,"date":"2010-10-21T08:53:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2010-10-21T08:53:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:53:36","slug":"spa-in-negotiations-over-belgian-gp-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/spa-in-negotiations-over-belgian-gp-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Spa in &#8216;negotiations&#8217; over Belgian GP &#8211; official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Belgian politician has played down fears Spa-Francorchamps is set to lose its grand prix, but admitted that no European venue is completely safe.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Ecclestone said this week it is &#8220;absolutely&#8221; possible the famous and popular venue, which is reportedly struggling to pay the F1 chief executive&#8217;s annual race fees, will be axed to make room on the calendar for the sport&#8217;s expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Claude Marcourt, economics minister of the local Walloon government, reacted cautiously to the 79-year-old Briton&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Formula one is becoming more globalised,&#8221; he is quoted by the Belga news agency, &#8220;and some countries are sparing no expense to join in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we should not dramatise the situation; negotiations are still gong on,&#8221; added Marcourt.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Belgian politician has played down fears Spa-Francorchamps is set to lose its grand prix, but admitted that no European venue is completely safe. Bernie Ecclestone said this week it is &#8220;absolutely&#8221; possible the famous and popular venue, which is reportedly struggling to pay the F1 chief executive&#8217;s annual race fees, will be axed to &#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":[59,5262,5340,90],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100"}],"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=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}