{"id":21437,"date":"2014-03-31T07:07:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21437"},"modified":"2014-03-31T07:07:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T11:07:34","slug":"drivers-stall-over-new-boss-for-f1-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/drivers-stall-over-new-boss-for-f1-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers stall over new boss for F1 union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future of the F1 drivers&#8217; association appears in danger.<\/p>\n<p>We reported after the season-opening Australian grand prix that current GPDA president Pedro de la Rosa wants to step down.<\/p>\n<p>Speed Week said the Ferrari reserve driver informed his colleagues in Melbourne and scheduled a vote for his successor to take place in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>But the same publication now reports that while the matter was put on the table at a meeting at Sepang, the drivers could not find a willing candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The issue will reportedly be back on the agenda this weekend in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside 43-year-old Spaniard de la Rosa, the other GPDA directors at present are Jenson Button and reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of the F1 drivers&#8217; association appears in danger. We reported after the season-opening Australian grand prix that current GPDA president Pedro de la Rosa wants to step down. Speed Week said the Ferrari reserve driver informed his colleagues in Melbourne and scheduled a vote for his successor to take place in Malaysia. But &#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":[5262,5340,566,153,271,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437"}],"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=21437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21438,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21437\/revisions\/21438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}