{"id":18286,"date":"2013-05-15T07:09:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18286"},"modified":"2013-05-15T07:09:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:09:04","slug":"no-panic-after-allisons-lotus-exit-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-panic-after-allisons-lotus-exit-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No panic&#8217; after Allison&#8217;s Lotus exit &#8211; owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez has played down the impact of technical director James Allison&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Gerard-Lopez-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Gerard-Lopez-3.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/>So highly rated had Briton Allison become within the F1 paddock, that many insiders believe the 45-year-old would be able to take his pick in terms of choosing his next team.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus has promoted from within &#8211; Nick Chester &#8211; to replace Allison, so it is feared that Enstone will now struggle to produce as good a car with a budget smaller than F1&#8217;s &#8216;big four&#8217; Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez told Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat: &#8220;We have known for some time that Allison is leaving, so I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s relevant to our performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;James is a great guy, an important guy,&#8221; he is also quoted by Sporting Life, &#8220;but that was more from a coordination point of view.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Bob Bell left (for Mercedes), there was panic outside of Enstone, but not with us, and this is the same thing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not going to affect us,&#8221; He added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enstone has amazing talent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez has played down the impact of technical director James Allison&#8217;s departure. So highly rated had Briton Allison become within the F1 paddock, that many insiders believe the 45-year-old would be able to take his pick in terms of choosing his next team. Lotus has promoted from within &#8211; Nick Chester &#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":[5262,5340,58,562,306,4466],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286"}],"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=18286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18287,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions\/18287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}