{"id":14949,"date":"2009-06-18T17:32:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T00:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14949"},"modified":"2009-06-18T17:52:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T00:52:55","slug":"video-automobile-f1-alonso-thinking-about-future-as-f1-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14949","title":{"rendered":"Video Automobile F1 &#8211; Alonso thinking about future as F1 deadline looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two-time champion Fernando Alonso made it clear on Thursday he will abandon Formula One if the budget-cap dispute between racing teams and the sport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s governing body isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t resolved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His Renault outfit is one of five members of the Formula One Teams\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Association that must confirm on Friday whether they will sign up unconditionally to enter the 2010 season. FOTA has opposed plans by the ruling FIA to introduce a voluntary $60 million budget cap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For me the new Formula One would be unattractive, with the small teams and no drivers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the 27-year-old Alonso said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want to compete with the best teams in the world, the maximum technology: we all want to compete with the best drivers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If this is not what Formula One is about next year, then &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=txf1budgetcapalonso&amp;prov=st&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time champion Fernando Alonso made it clear on Thursday he will abandon Formula One if the budget-cap dispute between racing teams and the sport\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s governing body isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t resolved. His Renault outfit is one of five members of the Formula One Teams\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Association that must confirm on Friday whether they will sign up unconditionally to enter [&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-14949","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\/14949","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=14949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14962,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions\/14962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}