{"id":1211,"date":"2010-01-05T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2010-01-05T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:02:00","slug":"eric-boullier-confirmed-as-new-renault-team-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/eric-boullier-confirmed-as-new-renault-team-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Boullier confirmed as new Renault team boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Eric Boullier was on Tuesday confirmed as Renault&#8217;s new team principal.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Frenchman is the former boss of the GP2 team DAMS and France&#8217;s A1 team, and the CEO of the Gravity Sport driver management company, with links to Enstone based Renault&#8217;s new main owner Genii Capital.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bob Bell, who took over the team principal role after Flavio Briatore was ousted for the crashgate scandal last year, will return to his former post as technical director.<\/p>\n<p>Boullier&#8217;s appointment, first reported before Christmas, sparked speculation that Robert Kubica&#8217;s 2010 teammate will come from the Gravity stable, such as Ho-Pin Tung or Jerome d&#8217;Ambrosio. &#8220;It might be a Gravity driver or not, but I can guarantee that it will be even more difficult for a Gravity driver to be selected as they really will have to prove their worth to be chosen as Renault&#8217;s second driver,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9RIF\/GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Boullier was on Tuesday confirmed as Renault&#8217;s new team principal. \u00a0 The 36-year-old Frenchman is the former boss of the GP2 team DAMS and France&#8217;s A1 team, and the CEO of the Gravity Sport driver management company, with links to Enstone based Renault&#8217;s new main owner Genii Capital.<\/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":[253,251,5262,252,127,274,113,275,55],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"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=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}