{"id":9360,"date":"2010-11-04T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9360"},"modified":"2010-11-04T07:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T11:15:22","slug":"shanghai-must-improve-track-before-2011-race-fia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/shanghai-must-improve-track-before-2011-race-fia\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai must improve track before 2011 race &#8211; FIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Shanghai circuit must improve its track surface and rain drainage before hosting its eighth grand prix next April.<\/p>\n<p>The huge and impressive facility cost $240 million to build ahead of its 2004 debut, but has been given only a provisional date on the 20-race 2011 calendar.<\/p>\n<p>A report in Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport said the last two rain-affected races at the venue have moved the FIA to demand improved drainage for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>And the governing body reportedly also wants troublesome bumps in the track surface to be resolved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The homologation licence for the Shanghai International Circuit has expired and before a new licence can be issued by the FIA some work on the track is required,&#8221; confirmed a spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Shanghai circuit must improve its track surface and rain drainage before hosting its eighth grand prix next April. The huge and impressive facility cost $240 million to build ahead of its 2004 debut, but has been given only a provisional date on the 20-race 2011 calendar. A report in Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport &#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":[5262,5300,5340,5368],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360"}],"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=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9361,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions\/9361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}