{"id":19558,"date":"2013-10-11T07:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T11:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19558"},"modified":"2013-10-11T07:26:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T11:26:18","slug":"de-villota-died-of-natural-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/de-villota-died-of-natural-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"De Villota died of natural causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears Maria de Villota died of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-19560\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Maria-de-Villota-helmet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Maria-de-Villota-helmet.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Maria-de-Villota-helmet.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Maria-de-Villota-helmet-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Maria-de-Villota-helmet-450x320.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Maria-de-Villota-helmet-140x100.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/>The 33-year-old Spaniard, who sustained serious head injuries in a Marussia testing crash last year, was found dead in a Seville hotel room early on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>She was in the Spanish city to give a presentation ahead of the launch of her autobiography, &#8216;La vida es un regalo&#8217; (Life is a gift), and according to reports had appeared in perfect health on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish motor racing president Carlos Gracia, who said de Villota had sent him an email at about midnight on Monday, told Marca newspaper: &#8220;All I know for now is that her personal assistant, Arancha, came into the room and could not wake her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was already dead.\u00a0 Apparently it was a natural death, but we know nothing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Franco, the F1 correspondent for the sports newspaper AS, added: &#8220;There were no drugs found or any signs of violence, so she is likely to have died of natural causes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spanish television Antena 3, who said de Villota has suffered from migraines since recovering from the near-fatal 2012 crash, revealed there will be an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears Maria de Villota died of natural causes. The 33-year-old Spaniard, who sustained serious head injuries in a Marussia testing crash last year, was found dead in a Seville hotel room early on Friday. She was in the Spanish city to give a presentation ahead of the launch of her autobiography, &#8216;La vida es &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[857,5262,5340,535,4409,4679],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19558"}],"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=19558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19561,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19558\/revisions\/19561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}