{"id":19461,"date":"2013-10-03T07:12:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T11:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19461"},"modified":"2013-10-03T07:12:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T11:12:44","slug":"ward-could-stand-aside-for-bin-sulayem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ward-could-stand-aside-for-bin-sulayem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward could stand aside for Bin Sulayem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Ward has admitted he might give up his bid to become FIA president.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, it was rumoured Ward&#8217;s candidature to dethrone Jean Todt was a mere &#8216;straw man&#8217; precursor to the real challenge to be made by Mohammad Bin Sulayem.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Bin Sulayem, the highest-ranking Middle Eastern FIA official, admitted the former rally driver has been encouraged to run but has made no decision yet.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Briton Ward has been quoted by the Telegraph admitting that he could stand aside for Bin Sulayem if he has a better chance of success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Mohammed thinks that my reform agenda is worthwhile and, if he is prepared to give solid undertakings and commitments to introduce it, then (standing aside) is something that I should look at,&#8221; said Ward.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ward has admitted he might give up his bid to become FIA president. Earlier, it was rumoured Ward&#8217;s candidature to dethrone Jean Todt was a mere &#8216;straw man&#8217; precursor to the real challenge to be made by Mohammad Bin Sulayem. A spokesman for Bin Sulayem, the highest-ranking Middle Eastern FIA official, admitted the former &#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":[4604,5262,5300,4652,5340,284,4653],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461"}],"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=19461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19462,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461\/revisions\/19462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}