{"id":1150,"date":"2005-06-19T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/06\/f1_fiasco\/"},"modified":"2005-06-19T19:35:04","modified_gmt":"2005-06-19T19:35:04","slug":"f1_fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/f1_fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the most ridiculous F1 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/motorsport\/formula_one\/4109148.stm\">&#8220;race&#8221;<\/a> ever is under way. Between them, the organisers and FIA have managed to con 120,000 paying spectators and millions of TV viewers out of a proper race.<br \/>\nInstead just six cars are &#8220;racing&#8221; around with some of the teams competing seemingly more interested in picking up points rather than serving the spectators, viewers and sponsors.<br \/>\nObviously none of these people have seen how US sports crowds take this kind of thing, with cases in the past of spectators throwing drinks onto the circuit in disgust.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve thought for years that F1 was a sham, and this just goes to show that it is. The US has plenty of other motorsports as do other parts of the world. They don&#8217;t need F1. F1 could be on its last legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the most ridiculous F1 &#8220;race&#8221; ever is under way. Between them, the organisers and FIA have managed to con 120,000 paying spectators and millions of TV viewers out of a proper race. Instead just six cars are &#8220;racing&#8221; around with some of the teams competing seemingly more interested in picking up points rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}