{"id":12154,"date":"2011-05-05T06:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2011-05-05T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T10:46:56","slug":"pollock-heads-2013-f1-engine-supplier-pure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pollock-heads-2013-f1-engine-supplier-pure\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollock heads 2013 F1 engine supplier Pure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAR team founder and Jacques Villeneuve&#8217;s former manager Craig Pollock has announced plans to head a new formula one engine supplier.<\/p>\n<p>He said Propulsion Universelle et Recuperation d&#8217;Energie, to be known as Pure, is already designing an engine for the new 2013 turbo regulations.<\/p>\n<p>There are at present only four engine suppliers in F1: Ferrari, Mercedes, Renault and Cosworth.<\/p>\n<p>Pollock said he has not yet spoken to the teams about his plans but has scheduled talks for the Spanish grand prix later this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our design and development is already way down the road and we are now ready to approach the teams,&#8221; said the 55-year-old Scot, who brought Villeneuve into formula one and then founded Brackley based British American Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Villeneuve is apparently not involved with Pure, with Pollock confirming that he is funding the project whilst finalising contacts with partners.<\/p>\n<p>The Renault-linked Mecachrome is reportedly involved, and Pollock revealed he has the &#8220;very clear backing&#8221; of the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s &#8220;support&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wish Pure every success in developing powertrains compliant with the new FIA regulations,&#8221; a Pure media statement quoted Jean Todt as saying.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAR team founder and Jacques Villeneuve&#8217;s former manager Craig Pollock has announced plans to head a new formula one engine supplier. He said Propulsion Universelle et Recuperation d&#8217;Energie, to be known as Pure, is already designing an engine for the new 2013 turbo regulations. There are at present only four engine suppliers in F1: Ferrari, &#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":[3043,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154"}],"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=12154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12155,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions\/12155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}