{"id":18078,"date":"2013-04-08T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18078"},"modified":"2013-04-08T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:55:52","slug":"red-bull-signs-female-to-famous-junior-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-signs-female-to-famous-junior-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull signs female to famous &#8216;junior team&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull has signed up a female driver to its famous driver development &#8216;junior team&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Red-Bull-Racing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-logos\/Red-Bull-Racing.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"115\" \/>18-year-old Netherlander Beitske Visser, having won two races in 2012, will race this year with the energy drink company&#8217;s backing in the German single seater category ADAC Formel Masters in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>She is &#8220;the first ever female to join our squad&#8221;, Red Bull said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In charge of the junior programme is Dr Helmut Marko, who in February declared that US-based Indycar and Nascar star Danica Patrick has done &#8220;not enough&#8221; to attract Red Bull&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking for drivers based on performance, not by quota,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The most famous graduate of Red Bull&#8217;s junior team is Sebastian Vettel, but also making it to F1 from the same programme were Jean-Eric Vergne, Daniel Ricciardo, Jaime Alguersuari, Sebastien Buemi and several others.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull has signed up a female driver to its famous driver development &#8216;junior team&#8217;. 18-year-old Netherlander Beitske Visser, having won two races in 2012, will race this year with the energy drink company&#8217;s backing in the German single seater category ADAC Formel Masters in 2013. She is &#8220;the first ever female to join our &#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":[4390,4389,1628,5262,5340,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18078"}],"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=18078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18079,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18078\/revisions\/18079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}