{"id":18992,"date":"2013-08-14T07:06:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T11:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18992"},"modified":"2013-08-14T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T11:06:26","slug":"tost-names-da-costa-as-likely-ricciardo-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/tost-names-da-costa-as-likely-ricciardo-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tost names da Costa as likely Ricciardo successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost has named Antonio Felix da Costa as the likely candidate should the team have a vacancy for 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Franz-Tost-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Franz-Tost-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>With Daniel Ricciardo in the running to replace Red Bull&#8217;s Le Mans-bound Mark Webber, the energy drink company&#8217;s junior team Toro Rosso has said it wants to keep Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne next year.<\/p>\n<p>As for Australian Ricciardo&#8217;s likely successor, Tost told Brazil&#8217;s Totalrace: &#8220;Antonio Felix da Costa is one of the candidates, but let&#8217;s wait for Red Bull&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they take Daniel, then we will assess who will be the choice for our second cockpit,&#8221; the Austrian added.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull-backed Portuguese da Costa, 21, is currently running fifth in this season&#8217;s Formula Renault 3.5 series.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost has named Antonio Felix da Costa as the likely candidate should the team have a vacancy for 2014. With Daniel Ricciardo in the running to replace Red Bull&#8217;s Le Mans-bound Mark Webber, the energy drink company&#8217;s junior team Toro Rosso has said it wants to keep Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne next &#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":[2407,1096,5262,5340,910,1896,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992"}],"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=18992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18993,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992\/revisions\/18993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}