{"id":21475,"date":"2014-04-03T07:07:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T11:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21475"},"modified":"2014-04-03T07:07:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T11:07:57","slug":"smedley-joins-williams-team-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/smedley-joins-williams-team-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Smedley joins Williams team in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Smedley is finally starting work at Williams.<\/p>\n<p>More than a month ago, the British team confirmed long speculation the 40-year-old Briton, famous for his close relationship with Felipe Massa at Ferrari, will soon become &#8216;head of vehicle performance&#8217; at Grove.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s Globo said Smedley has now served his mandatory gardening leave and will be on the pitwall in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rob will be at the track and I will work in the factory and at the tests throughout the season,&#8221; Williams&#8217; chief engineer Rod Nelson is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will bring a lot of experience and a lot of good ideas,&#8221; Nelson added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Smedley is finally starting work at Williams. More than a month ago, the British team confirmed long speculation the 40-year-old Briton, famous for his close relationship with Felipe Massa at Ferrari, will soon become &#8216;head of vehicle performance&#8217; at Grove. Brazil&#8217;s Globo said Smedley has now served his mandatory gardening leave and will be &#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":[5262,130,5340,2020,1240,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475"}],"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=21475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21476,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475\/revisions\/21476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}