{"id":17543,"date":"2013-01-10T07:08:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T12:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17543"},"modified":"2013-01-10T07:08:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T12:08:35","slug":"gene-inks-new-ferrari-test-driver-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/gene-inks-new-ferrari-test-driver-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene inks new Ferrari test driver deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Gene has signed up for yet another year as a Ferrari test driver.<\/p>\n<p>Although now spearheading the F1 role with an Audi sports cars endurance seat, Gene has inked a new one-year Ferrari contract for 2013, Switzerland&#8217;s Speed Week reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Spaniard, who also commentates on F1 with Spanish television Antena 3, has been a Ferrari test driver since 2005, although Jules Bianchi was the famous Italian team&#8217;s official reserve in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Gene&#8217;s recent role has been more confined to working with sponsors, and in the simulator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m honoured that I can continue working for Ferrari,&#8221; he is quoted as saying this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My goal is clear &#8212; I want to help Ferrari and Fernando Alonso to have a car capable of winning the title.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gene raced for Minardi in 1999 and 2000, and as Williams&#8217; reserve driver stepped into injured Ralf Schumacher&#8217;s car for short periods in 2003 and 2004.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Gene has signed up for yet another year as a Ferrari test driver. Although now spearheading the F1 role with an Audi sports cars endurance seat, Gene has inked a new one-year Ferrari contract for 2013, Switzerland&#8217;s Speed Week reports. The 38-year-old Spaniard, who also commentates on F1 with Spanish television Antena 3, has &#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":[5262,93,4253,5340,516],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543"}],"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=17543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17544,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543\/revisions\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}