{"id":18309,"date":"2013-05-20T07:31:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18309"},"modified":"2013-05-20T07:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:31:43","slug":"bahrain-stance-triggered-f1-doctors-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bahrain-stance-triggered-f1-doctors-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain stance triggered F1 doctor&#8217;s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Hartstein, F1&#8217;s former doctor, claims his stance about the controversial Bahrain grand prix led to his departure.<\/p>\n<p>American Hartstein, who was hand-picked by the late Professor Sid Watkins to replace him as the sport&#8217;s chief doctor last decade, lost his job at the end of last season when FIA president Jean Todt chose not to renew his contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think my dismissal was partly for personal reasons,&#8221; he is quoted by Speed Week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some people just didn&#8217;t like my ways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision was made before the (2012) Bahrain grand prix, because I wanted to set up a central emergency number; and I was proposing it not only for Bahrain,&#8221; said Hartstein.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone said it was a good idea and that they spoke with the president (Todt) about it.\u00a0 Half an hour later, the president was running towards me, ranting &#8216;Bahrain is not a war zone!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that was the decisive factor for my release.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Hartstein, F1&#8217;s former doctor, claims his stance about the controversial Bahrain grand prix led to his departure. American Hartstein, who was hand-picked by the late Professor Sid Watkins to replace him as the sport&#8217;s chief doctor last decade, lost his job at the end of last season when FIA president Jean Todt chose not &#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":[864,5340,2523,284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18309"}],"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=18309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}