{"id":18235,"date":"2013-05-09T06:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T10:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18235"},"modified":"2013-05-09T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T10:50:23","slug":"montezemolo-plays-down-allison-to-ferrari-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/montezemolo-plays-down-allison-to-ferrari-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezemolo plays down Allison to Ferrari &#8216;rumour&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luca di Montezemolo has played down rumours linking Lotus&#8217; newly departed technical director James Allison with a move to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Luca-di-Montezemolo-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Luca-di-Montezemolo-3.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Lotus announced on Wednesday that the highly-rated 45-year-old Briton, who worked at Maranello in the Michael Schumacher era, is leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Reports immediately linked Allison with a return to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know nothing,&#8221; Italian reports quote Ferrari president Montezemolo as saying, &#8220;so I cannot deny anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as I know, these are just rumours.\u00a0 I will say something if there is something to say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Autosprint said Allison&#8217;s next paddock destination is unlikely to be known for at least six months, the standard &#8216;gardening leave&#8217; period.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari aside, &#8220;another possibility (for Allison) is a change to Williams,&#8221; wrote Tobias Gruner in Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Autosprint&#8217;s Alberto Antonini commented: &#8220;James Allison wanted better financial conditions, which Lotus could not provide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca di Montezemolo has played down rumours linking Lotus&#8217; newly departed technical director James Allison with a move to Ferrari. Lotus announced on Wednesday that the highly-rated 45-year-old Briton, who worked at Maranello in the Michael Schumacher era, is leaving. Reports immediately linked Allison with a return to Ferrari. &#8220;I know nothing,&#8221; Italian reports quote &#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":[5262,93,5340,562,148,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235"}],"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=18235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18236,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions\/18236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}