{"id":1494,"date":"2010-01-13T06:15:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2010-01-13T06:15:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:15:45","slug":"virgin-replaces-team-boss-alex-tai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-replaces-team-boss-alex-tai\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin replaces team boss Alex Tai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The formula one career of Alex Tai has proved short lived, with Virgin announcing he is being replaced as team principal.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before the new British team has turned a single wheel, Manor founder&#8217;s John Booth has taken over the helm, it was confirmed in a media statement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Virgin said the move is &#8220;part of the planned evolution of the team and continued development of the business&#8221;, with Tai returning to Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s well known company and his &#8220;passion for new ventures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another Manor veteran, Graeme Lowdon, becomes the CEO of Virgin Racing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew this day was coming but we are still sorry to see Alex move on from his executive duties,&#8221; said chairman Etienne de Villiers.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the new appointments recognise &#8220;the complexity and challenges of the new business&#8221;, while Virgin seeks to create &#8220;a team with the appropriate skills and experience to ensure its sustainable success&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The formula one career of Alex Tai has proved short lived, with Virgin announcing he is being replaced as team principal. \u00a0 Before the new British team has turned a single wheel, Manor founder&#8217;s John Booth has taken over the helm, it was confirmed in a media statement.<\/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":[53,3],"tags":[371,5262,373,372,120,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"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=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}