{"id":21548,"date":"2014-04-09T20:42:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21548"},"modified":"2014-04-09T20:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T00:42:35","slug":"mclaren-disputes-appointment-of-red-bull-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-disputes-appointment-of-red-bull-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren disputes appointment of Red Bull chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren is disputing Red Bull&#8217;s appointment on Wednesday of a new aerodynamics boss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Eric-Boullier-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-persons\/Eric-Boullier-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Late last year, we reported that as well as Red Bull&#8217;s aerodynamics chief Peter Prodromou, McLaren has also signed his &#8216;deputy&#8217; Dan Fallows.<\/p>\n<p>But Red Bull on Wednesday said Fallows has in fact become the reigning world champions&#8217; new &#8216;head of aerodynamics&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Previously working as a (aerodynamics) team leader, he left the team for a short time last year,&#8221; Red Bull said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has now returned &#8230; to begin working in his new role,&#8221; the team added.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren, however, is disputing Fallows&#8217; re-appointment at McLaren, insisting he has a &#8220;legally binding contract&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Red Bull convinced Fallows to stay by offering him the departing Prodromou&#8217;s job and salary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The matter is now in the hands of our lawyers,&#8221; team boss Eric Boullier said in a teleconference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ahead of his new McLaren role, Red Bull said Prodromou has now left the team to start &#8220;a period of gardening leave&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren is disputing Red Bull&#8217;s appointment on Wednesday of a new aerodynamics boss. Late last year, we reported that as well as Red Bull&#8217;s aerodynamics chief Peter Prodromou, McLaren has also signed his &#8216;deputy&#8217; Dan Fallows. But Red Bull on Wednesday said Fallows has in fact become the reigning world champions&#8217; new &#8216;head of aerodynamics&#8217;. &#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":[4699,251,5262,5340,5284,4682,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21548"}],"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=21548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21549,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21548\/revisions\/21549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}