{"id":2495,"date":"2010-02-17T07:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2010-02-17T06:49:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T11:49:32","slug":"key-usf1-figure-leaves-american-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/key-usf1-figure-leaves-american-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Key USF1 figure leaves American team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A key member of the new American entrant USF1 is believed to have left the team.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brian Bonner, the team&#8217;s head of business development, is no longer working with USF1, amid rumours the YouTube founder and CEO Chad Hurley has ceased his backing of the Charlotte based operation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bonner, 50, is a former Indycar driver, and now co-director of the B4 Marketing company.<\/p>\n<p>Another rumour is that Hurley could be interested in joining forces with Campos, the other embattled new F1 team, with the hopeful Serbian outfit Stefan GP also possibly involved.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there are rumours that some other USF1 team members are growing impatient at delays in being paid.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it is true that USF1&#8217;s Charlotte headquarters is for sale, but the team is in fact a sitting tenant, with a lease through 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key member of the new American entrant USF1 is believed to have left the team. \u00a0 Brian Bonner, the team&#8217;s head of business development, is no longer working with USF1, amid rumours the YouTube founder and CEO Chad Hurley has ceased his backing of the Charlotte based operation.<\/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":[741,249,5262,255,313],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495"}],"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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}