{"id":9860,"date":"2010-11-26T08:21:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T13:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2010-11-26T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T13:21:39","slug":"ecclestone-injured-in-london-mugging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-injured-in-london-mugging\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone injured in London mugging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone is nursing minor injuries after muggers attacked the F1 chief executive and his girlfriend Fabiana Flosi outside his London home.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun reports that the 80-year-old was rushed to hospital with a head injury after the four attackers punched and kicked him as they stole watches and jewellery at 10.30pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs of the F1 chief executive returning to work on Thursday morning showed a red mark on his right hand.<\/p>\n<p>A senior police source said: &#8220;There can be little doubt this was a targeted robbery because of who Mr Ecclestone is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The muggers were callous and showed little regard for the victims.\u00a0 They need to be caught.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month in Brazil, Ecclestone brushed off an attempted armed mugging or kidnapping involving F1&#8217;s reigning world champion Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They look for victims, they look for anyone who looks like a soft touch and not too bright,&#8221; said the Briton in Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People who look a bit soft and simple, they will always have a go at.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone is nursing minor injuries after muggers attacked the F1 chief executive and his girlfriend Fabiana Flosi outside his London home. The Sun reports that the 80-year-old was rushed to hospital with a head injury after the four attackers punched and kicked him as they stole watches and jewellery at 10.30pm on Wednesday. Photographs &#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":[59,5262,2463,5340,2464],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860"}],"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=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9861,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions\/9861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}