{"id":13014,"date":"2009-05-23T21:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T04:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13014"},"modified":"2009-05-23T21:38:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T04:38:18","slug":"automobile-f1-monaco-f1-race-feels-pinch-of-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13014","title":{"rendered":"Automobile F1 &#8211; Monaco F1 race feels pinch of financial crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stands are empty, hotel rooms available and tickets unsold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Formula One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most glamorous race, the Monaco GP, is feeling the pinch of the global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Formula One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slim-downed, cost-conscious version arrives in Monaco, one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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 the tax haven many F1 drivers call home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There were empty seats during Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first practice day and thousands of the 45,000 tickets were still available on Friday for Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 78-lap race&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=txf1monacogpfinancialc&amp;prov=st&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stands are empty, hotel rooms available and tickets unsold. Formula One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most glamorous race, the Monaco GP, is feeling the pinch of the global financial crisis. Formula One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slim-downed, cost-conscious version arrives in Monaco, one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wealthiest states, for the 67th time. But the atmosphere is clearly different this year. Although there will [&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-13014","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\/13014","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=13014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13016,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions\/13016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}