{"id":12917,"date":"2009-05-22T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T21:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12917"},"modified":"2009-05-22T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T21:21:34","slug":"automobile-f1-even-monaco-f1-race-feels-the-pinch-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12917","title":{"rendered":"Automobile F1 &#8211; Even Monaco F1 race feels the pinch of crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">MONACO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Stands are empty, hotel rooms available and tickets unsold.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Formula One&#8217;s most glamorous race, the Monaco GP, is feeling the pinch of the global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Formula One&#8217;s slim-downed, cost-conscious version arrives at the principality of Monaco, one of the world&#8217;s wealthiest states, for the 67th time. But the atmosphere is clearly different this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although there will be movie stars and models frolicking aboard two-story yachts as always, the downturn has touched this tax haven that many F1 drivers call home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Empty stands stood out in front of the harbor during Thursday&#8217;s first practice day and thousands of the 45,000 tickets were still available on Friday for Sunday&#8217;s 78-lap race&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/2009-05-22-2689528263_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONACO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Stands are empty, hotel rooms available and tickets unsold. Formula One&#8217;s most glamorous race, the Monaco GP, is feeling the pinch of the global financial crisis. Formula One&#8217;s slim-downed, cost-conscious version arrives at the principality of Monaco, one of the world&#8217;s wealthiest states, for the 67th time. But the atmosphere is clearly different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12918,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions\/12918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}