{"id":10535,"date":"2011-01-16T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2011-01-16T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T15:23:30","slug":"coulthard-to-keep-red-bull-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/coulthard-to-keep-red-bull-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Coulthard to keep Red Bull role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Coulthard can keep his job as a consultant with Red Bull even though he is the new full-time F1 commentator for British television.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Scot saw out his grand prix career with the Austrian team until 2009, when he retired and became a BBC pundit.<\/p>\n<p>For 2011, he is moving alongside fellow former driver Martin Brundle into the race commentary box, raising suggestions his contract with Red Bull might be a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;David Coulthard will not be asked to drop or suspend his ties with Red Bull in the interests of impartiality,&#8221; a BBC spokeswoman told the Scottish newspaper Daily Record&#8217;s Sunday edition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We take steps to ensure that none of the off-air relationships that our talent may have can compromise on-air activity,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull and Coulthard declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Coulthard can keep his job as a consultant with Red Bull even though he is the new full-time F1 commentator for British television. The 39-year-old Scot saw out his grand prix career with the Austrian team until 2009, when he retired and became a BBC pundit. For 2011, he is moving alongside fellow former &#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":[410,5262,2684,5340,322,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535"}],"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=10535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10536,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions\/10536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}