{"id":1946,"date":"2010-01-18T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/18\/button-dismisses-f1-shortcuts\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:08:18","slug":"button-dismisses-f1-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/18\/button-dismisses-f1-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Button Dismisses F1 Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a stupid idea by Bernie Ecclestone.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/shortcut-plan-a-bad-idea-says-button\/article\/161584\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.racer.com\/shortcut-plan-a-bad-idea-says-button\/article\/161584\/', 'Shortcuts in F1');\" target=\"_blank\">Shortcuts in F1<\/a>?  Good grief!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ecclestone proposed the idea during a media event last week. \u201cI\u2019ve tried to push the teams with a number of proposals. Imagine a shortcut which a driver can use five times every race,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would stop people from getting stuck behind others and be good for TV.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jenson Button quickly dismissed the idea out of hand.  Mr. Ecclestone, why not work on the actual on track racing, implementing rules for passing, not introducing hazards on the track?<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a stupid idea by Bernie Ecclestone. Shortcuts in F1? Good grief! Ecclestone proposed the idea during a media event last week. \u201cI\u2019ve tried to push the teams with a number of proposals. Imagine a shortcut which a driver can use five times every race,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would stop people from getting stuck behind &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/18\/button-dismisses-f1-shortcuts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Button Dismisses F1 Shortcuts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-f1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}