{"id":15405,"date":"2012-03-06T07:09:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15405"},"modified":"2012-03-06T07:09:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:09:44","slug":"de-la-rosa-replaces-gpda-president-barrichello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/de-la-rosa-replaces-gpda-president-barrichello\/","title":{"rendered":"De la Rosa replaces GPDA president Barrichello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de la Rosa has returned to the head of the formula one drivers&#8217; trade union, the GPDA.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish veteran was the president of the safety-oriented Grand Prix Drivers&#8217; Association between 2008 and 2010, stepping down when he returned to the grid with Sauber after years as McLaren&#8217;s reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Heidfeld and Rubens Barrichello were the next to lead the Monaco-based body, but the latter Brazilian veteran has now left formula one to race in Indycar this year.<\/p>\n<p>International media reports, including by the Spanish news agency EFE, said de la Rosa &#8211; who will race this year with the back-of-the-grid HRT team &#8211; is indeed now returning to the GPDA role.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the GPDA decided last year that in the event of a vacancy, the 41-year-old would once again lead the body.<\/p>\n<p>EFE also said the driver confirmed the news personally.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de la Rosa has returned to the head of the formula one drivers&#8217; trade union, the GPDA. The Spanish veteran was the president of the safety-oriented Grand Prix Drivers&#8217; Association between 2008 and 2010, stepping down when he returned to the grid with Sauber after years as McLaren&#8217;s reserve. Nick Heidfeld and Rubens Barrichello &#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":[5262,5340,566,979,271,352],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405"}],"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=15405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15406,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions\/15406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}