{"id":22419,"date":"2014-07-02T06:42:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T10:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22419"},"modified":"2014-07-02T06:42:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T10:42:45","slug":"kolles-returning-to-f1-with-caterham-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kolles-returning-to-f1-with-caterham-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolles returning to F1 with Caterham &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Kolles is set to return to the pitwall as a F1 team boss.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, it has been clear that the former HRT and Force India chief is in fact leading a Romanian project for an all-new F1 team, the Ferrari-linked Forza Rossa, who were waiting for the official green light from the governing FIA.<\/p>\n<p>But the very latest reports are that Germany-based Romanian Kolles is actually getting involved at Caterham.<\/p>\n<p>The major German daily Bild claims Kolles, 46, is becoming a motor sport consultant to the green-coloured team, as the struggling backmarker loses the support of its founder Tony Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the Leafield-based team has been bought, including its reported EUR 20 million in debts, by a consortium of Swiss-based Arabs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kolles is the man in the background, pulling the strings,&#8221; Bild reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wants to give Caterham a polish and achieve at least tenth place in the world championship, getting money from Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s TV pot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bild said Caterham&#8217;s new owners intend to &#8216;remain in the background&#8217;, even though the news should at least become official ahead of the British grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Kolles is set to return to the pitwall as a F1 team boss. Until now, it has been clear that the former HRT and Force India chief is in fact leading a Romanian project for an all-new F1 team, the Ferrari-linked Forza Rossa, who were waiting for the official green light from the governing &#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":[3605,602,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419"}],"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=22419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22420,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions\/22420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}