{"id":12856,"date":"2011-06-20T07:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12856"},"modified":"2011-06-20T07:15:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:15:56","slug":"oldest-ex-f1-driver-turns-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/oldest-ex-f1-driver-turns-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest ex-F1 driver turns 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Pietsch on Monday becomes the only living former formula one driver with a three-digit age.<\/p>\n<p>The German, born on 20 June 1911, drove Alfa Romeos and Maseratis in the modern world championship&#8217;s earliest years, failing to win a race or even score a point.<\/p>\n<p>But he is also remembered for founding the authoritative magazine Auto Motor und Sport, and in his more recent years for refusing to use a walking stick or a hearing aid because they are &#8220;for old people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically as a 100-year-old now, Pietsch&#8217;s nickname was &#8216;Rennbaby&#8217; (baby racer), due to his spending much of his earlier career as the youngest in the field.<\/p>\n<p>When his career stalled due to flagging finances, he founded a publishing company in a bid to get back on track.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to race again.\u00a0 We had to get the funding somehow, by selling something.\u00a0 I said to myself that I could sell my knowledge about motor racing,&#8221; he told the FAZ newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Pietsch on Monday becomes the only living former formula one driver with a three-digit age. The German, born on 20 June 1911, drove Alfa Romeos and Maseratis in the modern world championship&#8217;s earliest years, failing to win a race or even score a point. But he is also remembered for founding the authoritative magazine &#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":[1411,5262,5340,3153,3152],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856"}],"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=12856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12857,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions\/12857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}