{"id":17720,"date":"2009-08-03T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17720"},"modified":"2012-12-15T20:14:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T03:14:54","slug":"automobile-f1-motorcycle-roadracing-bmw-axes-f1-team-but-bike-teams-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17720","title":{"rendered":"Automobile F1 Motorcycle Roadracing &#8211; BMW axes F1 team but bike teams safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BMW recently announced its withdrawal from Formula One activities but its motorcycle racing programs will continue.The BMW-Sauber team will complete the 2009 F1 season before shutting down, joining Honda in deciding to pull out of the series. Citing the costs involved in developing an F1 program, as well as the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lack of success, BMW says it will redirect its resources towards \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the fields of sustainability and new technology development\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.Unlike Honda which also closed its AMA Pro Road Racing team and withdrew from the Suzuki 8 Hours endurance race, BMW says it will maintain its\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle.com\/news\/bmw-axes-f1-team-but-bike-teams-safe-88611.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW recently announced its withdrawal from Formula One activities but its motorcycle racing programs will continue.The BMW-Sauber team will complete the 2009 F1 season before shutting down, joining Honda in deciding to pull out of the series. Citing the costs involved in developing an F1 program, as well as the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lack of success, BMW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720","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=17720"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73209,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions\/73209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}