{"id":17678,"date":"2013-01-27T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T22:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17678"},"modified":"2013-01-27T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T22:42:12","slug":"lotus-says-tech-boss-allison-not-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-says-tech-boss-allison-not-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus says tech boss Allison not leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus&#8217; James Allison is staying put.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"James-Allison-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/James-Allison-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is the claim of an insider at the Enstone based team, despite admitting that Mercedes&#8217; Niki Lauda came calling for the highly rated British technical director.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, as the Paddy Lowe saga unfolded, we reported that Allison had been earmarked by McLaren as a possible replacement, in case Lowe jumped ship.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the Lotus insider confirmed that it had been Mercedes&#8217; Lauda on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lauda calls Allison every day,&#8221; the source is quoted by Speed Week, &#8220;but James&#8217; contract is bullet-proof.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, &#8220;He also doesn&#8217;t want to leave,&#8221; the Lotus insider added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus&#8217; James Allison is staying put. That is the claim of an insider at the Enstone based team, despite admitting that Mercedes&#8217; Niki Lauda came calling for the highly rated British technical director. Last week, as the Paddy Lowe saga unfolded, we reported that Allison had been earmarked by McLaren as a possible replacement, in &#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":[5262,5340,562,306,598],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17678"}],"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=17678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17679,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17678\/revisions\/17679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}