{"id":14171,"date":"2011-11-09T06:53:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14171"},"modified":"2011-11-09T06:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T11:53:42","slug":"lotus-signs-renaults-nielsen-before-caterham-rebirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-signs-renaults-nielsen-before-caterham-rebirth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus signs Renault&#8217;s Nielsen before Caterham rebirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Nielsen, who left Renault in June, has re-emerged at Team Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Tony Fernandes revealed that he offered Nielsen, Renault&#8217;s long-serving sporting director, the same role at Team Lotus a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I first met Steve in Singapore 2010 and offered him a job which he turned down, so I am delighted he has finally taken up the chance to join us,&#8221; he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen, who has worked with Mike Gascoyne at Tyrrell and Renault, will start his new job in December, replacing Dieter Gass who is returning to Germany ahead of Team Lotus&#8217; rebirth as Caterham in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Off track all the pieces are falling into place and we have now taken full control of our own destiny,&#8221; said Fernandes.\u00a0 &#8220;I think we can guarantee that we have a very bright future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Nielsen, who left Renault in June, has re-emerged at Team Lotus. Team boss Tony Fernandes revealed that he offered Nielsen, Renault&#8217;s long-serving sporting director, the same role at Team Lotus a year ago. &#8220;I first met Steve in Singapore 2010 and offered him a job which he turned down, so I am delighted he &#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":[2241,3021,5262,5340,1566,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171"}],"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=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14172,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions\/14172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}