{"id":2119,"date":"2010-02-04T07:25:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:25:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:25:39","slug":"mclaren-engineer-slade-resurfaces-at-renault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-engineer-slade-resurfaces-at-renault\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren engineer Slade resurfaces at Renault"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Long time McLaren race engineer Mark Slade has resurfaced at the Renault team for 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Slade, who headed former McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen&#8217;s engineering team last year, had been in the same role at the Woking based outfit for 15 years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He had also headed engineering for the respectively title and race-winning drivers Mika Hakkinen and Kimi Raikkonen, but earlier this month was excluded amid a McLaren reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat said Slade began working with Renault&#8217;s new Russian driver Vitaly Petrov at Valencia this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McLaren did not want me at the races any more and so I have moved to Renault,&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s managing director Jonathan Neale recently said McLaren decided to reshuffle its engineering team for 2010 because &#8220;we felt it was the right time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also played down suggestions McLaren&#8217;s 2009 struggles indicated an engineering weakness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s more that the opportunity of a new driver (Jenson Button), plus the rethinking required by the resource restriction agreement, comes at a very good time for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It enabled us to ask ourselves: How are we going to best do this?&#8221; Neale added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time McLaren race engineer Mark Slade has resurfaced at the Renault team for 2010. \u00a0 Slade, who headed former McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen&#8217;s engineering team last year, had been in the same role at the Woking based outfit for 15 years.<\/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":[5262,342,607,5284,55],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119"}],"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=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}