{"id":15377,"date":"2012-03-02T06:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15377"},"modified":"2012-03-02T06:47:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:47:28","slug":"williams-names-adam-parr-as-future-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-names-adam-parr-as-future-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams names Adam Parr as future successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Frank Williams has named Adam Parr, the Oxfordshire based team&#8217;s current chairman, as his obvious successor.<\/p>\n<p>69-year-old founder Williams remains the major shareholder and team principal, but he has already handed over the day-to-day running of the once-great outfit to fellow Briton Parr, 46.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If for whatever reason I couldn&#8217;t come in to do my job, Adam would fill the gap,&#8221; Williams told the British magazine F1 Racing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s not a racer but, in a way, that&#8217;s probably an advantage in these distinctly commercial days,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Parr began his career with the investment bank Barclays de Zoete Wedd, and later worked for Rio Tinto.<\/p>\n<p>He practiced law until the late 90s, meeting Williams in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Frank Williams has named Adam Parr, the Oxfordshire based team&#8217;s current chairman, as his obvious successor. 69-year-old founder Williams remains the major shareholder and team principal, but he has already handed over the day-to-day running of the once-great outfit to fellow Briton Parr, 46. &#8220;If for whatever reason I couldn&#8217;t come in to do &#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":[1451,5262,5340,541],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377"}],"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=15377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15378,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions\/15378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}