{"id":15422,"date":"2012-03-08T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15422"},"modified":"2012-03-08T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T11:56:11","slug":"marussia-signs-female-test-driver-de-villota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/marussia-signs-female-test-driver-de-villota\/","title":{"rendered":"Marussia signs female test driver de Villota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female driver Maria de Villota has signed on as a test driver with the Marussia team.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard, whose father is the former F1 driver Emilio de Villota, tested a Renault last year at Paul Ricard.<\/p>\n<p>She will initially &#8220;work with racing drivers operating at the pinnacle of the sport and, later in the year, (get) the chance to drive the MR01,&#8221; the former Virgin team announced in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The team said she will do the Abu Dhabi young drivers&#8217; test near the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>De Villota, 32, has previously raced in Spanish F3, Superleague and the Daytona 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be joining the team trackside so I&#8217;m looking forward to working alongside them at the first race next weekend and this can only help my future ambition to step up to formula one racing,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female driver Maria de Villota has signed on as a test driver with the Marussia team. The Spaniard, whose father is the former F1 driver Emilio de Villota, tested a Renault last year at Paul Ricard. She will initially &#8220;work with racing drivers operating at the pinnacle of the sport and, later in the year, &#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":[5262,5340,535,2361],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422"}],"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=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15423,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions\/15423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}