{"id":15632,"date":"2012-03-26T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15632"},"modified":"2012-03-26T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T11:08:09","slug":"chairman-parr-to-leave-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/chairman-parr-to-leave-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairman Parr to leave Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams chairman Adam Parr is leaving the famous British team.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxfordshire based outfit announced on Monday that he has resigned and will step down on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A media statement said Sir Frank Williams &#8220;will continue to oversee the company with the support of&#8221; fellow shareholder Toto Wolff, chief executive Alex Burns and new chairman Nick Rose.<\/p>\n<p>Parr joined Williams five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adam leaves us on good terms to pursue a better balance in his life for which I wish him and his family well,&#8221; said Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The news is a big surprise, given 69-year-old Williams&#8217; recent comments that he sees Parr as his natural successor.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was rumoured in Malaysia at the weekend that Parr was a sticking point in the team&#8217;s so far unsuccessful negotiations for the 2013 Concorde Agreement.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams chairman Adam Parr is leaving the famous British team. The Oxfordshire based outfit announced on Monday that he has resigned and will step down on Friday. A media statement said Sir Frank Williams &#8220;will continue to oversee the company with the support of&#8221; fellow shareholder Toto Wolff, chief executive Alex Burns and new chairman &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[1451,5262,5340,541,5359,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632"}],"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=15632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15633,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions\/15633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}