{"id":10146,"date":"2010-12-15T07:12:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10146"},"modified":"2010-12-15T07:12:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:12:33","slug":"montezemolo-asked-if-dyer-getting-christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/montezemolo-asked-if-dyer-getting-christmas-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezemolo asked if Dyer getting Christmas present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cheeky Italian journalist risked the ire of Luca di Montezemolo on Tuesday during the Ferrari president&#8217;s annual Christmas dinner for the country&#8217;s media.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what Christmas present he is planning for Fernando Alonso, the 63-year-old replied: &#8220;What the heck do you give him?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He earns enough,&#8221; laughed Montezemolo, who gave each of the reporters a model of this year&#8217;s F10.\u00a0 &#8220;And I already give him a F1 car!&#8221; he quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Amused that Montezemolo seemed not to be planning a gift at all, the questioner cheekily hit back: &#8220;I&#8217;m not asking you what you&#8217;re going to give Chris Dyer&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chief engineer and Australian Dyer is thought at risk of losing his job after bungling the race strategy that cost Alonso the drivers&#8217; title last month in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Montezemolo repeated again that Ferrari is not planning a major staff upheaval before the 2011 season, but that &#8220;some adjustments&#8221; are likely to take place.<\/p>\n<p>He also played down rumours he is preparing to enter Italian politics, or that Ferrari to be floated on the stock exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Montezemolo will similarly meet with international journalists on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cheeky Italian journalist risked the ire of Luca di Montezemolo on Tuesday during the Ferrari president&#8217;s annual Christmas dinner for the country&#8217;s media. Asked what Christmas present he is planning for Fernando Alonso, the 63-year-old replied: &#8220;What the heck do you give him? &#8220;He earns enough,&#8221; laughed Montezemolo, who gave each of the reporters &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[2052,5262,149,93,5340,148],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}