{"id":9301,"date":"2010-10-29T07:21:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T11:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2010-10-29T07:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T11:21:39","slug":"singtel-denies-sealing-new-singapore-gp-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/singtel-denies-sealing-new-singapore-gp-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"SingTel denies sealing new Singapore GP deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore telecommunications company SingTel has denied it has agreed a deal to extend its naming sponsorship of the city-state&#8217;s night grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We agreed terms with SingTel for the renewal of their contract for a further two years,&#8221; F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone was quoted earlier by the local media broadcaster MediaCorp.<\/p>\n<p>The news had followed rumours during Singapore&#8217;s third F1 event in September that SingTel was considering ending its association with the grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have companies worldwide that wish to have association in formula one and I always prefer to have local sponsors for the title sponsorship,&#8221; added Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for SingTel told us on Friday: &#8220;We are still in discussions with F1 management regarding the sponsorship of the Singapore grand prix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An industry expert said SingTel would be spending $10-15 million on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what the cost is but I am sure somebody in SingTel must have done a cost-benefit analysis,&#8221; said Nervik Singh, chief executive of the marketing communications company Grey Group Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore telecommunications company SingTel has denied it has agreed a deal to extend its naming sponsorship of the city-state&#8217;s night grand prix. &#8220;We agreed terms with SingTel for the renewal of their contract for a further two years,&#8221; F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone was quoted earlier by the local media broadcaster MediaCorp. The news had &#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":[59,5262,5340,2210,2332],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301"}],"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=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9302,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions\/9302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}