{"id":78571,"date":"2013-04-27T09:17:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78571"},"modified":"2013-04-27T09:17:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T16:17:06","slug":"why-do-formula-one-grand-prix-cars-cost-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78571","title":{"rendered":"Why do Formula One Grand Prix cars cost so much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Formula One is, as most fans know, one of the most expensive sports to compete in &#8212; but it isn&#8217;t until you break down its blockbuster costs that the scale of the spending becomes clear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last year&#8217;s championship winner, Red Bull Racing, had a $270.2 million season-long budget for a $13.5 million-per-race average. At the bottom of the grid, even the 11th-place Marussia team spent $5.4 million at every Grand Prix. When you consider a team incurs such expense just to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/article\/20130426\/F1\/130429847\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula One is, as most fans know, one of the most expensive sports to compete in &#8212; but it isn&#8217;t until you break down its blockbuster costs that the scale of the spending becomes clear. Last year&#8217;s championship winner, Red Bull Racing, had a $270.2 million season-long budget for a $13.5 million-per-race average. At the [&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-78571","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\/78571","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=78571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78572,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78571\/revisions\/78572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}