{"id":11359,"date":"2011-03-04T18:55:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2011-03-04T18:55:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:55:33","slug":"ferrari-again-tweaks-name-of-2011-f1-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-again-tweaks-name-of-2011-f1-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari again tweaks name of 2011 F1 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari has tweaked the name of its 2011 car for a second time as a legal dispute with Ford ends.<\/p>\n<p>American carmaker Ford, owning the &#8220;F-150&#8221; trademark for one of its full-size pickup truck models, launched legal action after Ferrari called its new formula one car F150.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari, however, responded by saying F150 was merely an abbreviation for the full name F150th Italia, in celebration of this year&#8217;s anniversary of Italian unification.<\/p>\n<p>Ford announced on Friday that it had called off the legal action but did not say why.<\/p>\n<p>Some hours later, Ferrari admitted that it has now also dropped the &#8216;F&#8217; prefix from the designation.<\/p>\n<p>In Ferrari&#8217;s always-cynical &#8216;Horse Whisperer&#8217; website column, the team said it made the tweak &#8220;in order to avoid the slightest risk of anyone confusing a formula one car with a pickup truck&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s hope the matter is now definitely closed,&#8221; added the unnamed columnist, &#8220;and that we can concentrate on more serious matters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari has tweaked the name of its 2011 car for a second time as a legal dispute with Ford ends. American carmaker Ford, owning the &#8220;F-150&#8221; trademark for one of its full-size pickup truck models, launched legal action after Ferrari called its new formula one car F150. Ferrari, however, responded by saying F150 was merely &#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":[5262,2753,93,719,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359"}],"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=11359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11360,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions\/11360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}