{"id":17553,"date":"2013-01-11T06:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17553"},"modified":"2013-01-11T06:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:59:31","slug":"ferrari-adds-british-aero-man-to-f1-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-adds-british-aero-man-to-f1-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari adds British aero man to F1 ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari has added a Briton to its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging its aerodynamic weaknesses, the fabled Italian team last year signed well-known F1 aerodynamicist Loic Bigois to switch from Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari is currently developing its 2013 car, probably to be called the F2013, in Toyota&#8217;s state-of-the-art Cologne wind tunnel, while the Maranello facility is closed and improved.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Autosprint reports that the scarlet-clad team has signed Martin Bester.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton&#8217;s last post was as Williams&#8217; aerodynamics team leader.<\/p>\n<p>He has also worked for BMW and McLaren&#8217;s F1 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to working at Mercedes, chief aerodynamicist and Frenchman Bigois worked alongside Bester at Williams, the Italian magazine added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari has added a Briton to its ranks. Acknowledging its aerodynamic weaknesses, the fabled Italian team last year signed well-known F1 aerodynamicist Loic Bigois to switch from Mercedes. Ferrari is currently developing its 2013 car, probably to be called the F2013, in Toyota&#8217;s state-of-the-art Cologne wind tunnel, while the Maranello facility is closed and improved. &#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":[5262,4257,93,5340,4258],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17553"}],"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=17553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17554,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17553\/revisions\/17554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}