{"id":1991,"date":"2010-02-01T06:33:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2010-02-01T06:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:33:31","slug":"de-la-rosa-may-step-down-as-gpda-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/de-la-rosa-may-step-down-as-gpda-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"De la Rosa may step down as GPDA chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Pedro de la Rosa may step back as chairman of the formula one drivers&#8217; association GPDA.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Spaniard fulfilled the role in the recent past but on Sunday began in earnest his return to the grid as the Sauber C29 was launched in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good question,&#8221; de la Rosa is quoted as answering when asked if he will now have enough time to devote to the safety-oriented body.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For the past seven years, de la Rosa has travelled to all the grands prix predominantly in the role as McLaren&#8217;s test and reserve driver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know yet, I haven&#8217;t decided it myself.\u00a0 We will have to discuss this with the GPDA members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will obviously be more difficult now for me to have the chairmanship, because I have less time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I personally believe that we need someone who has more time than a race driver.\u00a0 As a test driver it was easy,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Spanish morning newspaper El Periodico said de la Rosa is making his race return this year in the hope of attracting Spanish sponsors to Hinwil based Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>Team owner Peter Sauber said he hopes &#8220;a Spanish sponsor, one of the major Spanish companies, is encouraged (to enter) F1 now that de la Rosa is back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de la Rosa may step back as chairman of the formula one drivers&#8217; association GPDA. \u00a0 The 38-year-old Spaniard fulfilled the role in the recent past but on Sunday began in earnest his return to the grid as the Sauber C29 was launched in Spain. &#8220;Good question,&#8221; de la Rosa is quoted as answering &#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":[5262,566,271,243,567],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991"}],"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=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}