{"id":1587,"date":"2010-01-15T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2010-01-15T15:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:47:47","slug":"virgin-boss-john-booth-launches-gp3-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-boss-john-booth-launches-gp3-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin boss John Booth launches GP3 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Manor will field a team in this year&#8217;s new GP3 category.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Albeit branded Virgin Racing, Manor is also contesting its first season in formula one in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss John Booth is &#8220;eager to maintain close links with grassroots racing&#8221;, read a media statement, referring to his earlier years fielding future stars including Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen in his F3 team.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A driver development programme was always part of the master plan in the formation of Virgin Racing,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>GP3 kicks off as a 280 horse power support series for GP2 at this year&#8217;s Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Booth said: &#8220;The icing on the cake is the fantastic prize of an F1 test with Virgin Racing for the most successful Manor GP3 driver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manor will field a team in this year&#8217;s new GP3 category. \u00a0 Albeit branded Virgin Racing, Manor is also contesting its first season in formula one in 2010. Team boss John Booth is &#8220;eager to maintain close links with grassroots racing&#8221;, read a media statement, referring to his earlier years fielding future stars including Lewis &#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":[5262,404,372,152,154,120,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}