{"id":2667,"date":"2010-02-24T06:45:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T11:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2010-02-24T06:26:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T11:26:11","slug":"smith-replaces-departing-key-at-force-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/smith-replaces-departing-key-at-force-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith replaces departing Key at Force India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mark Smith has been named as Force India&#8217;s new technical director.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A media statement said James Key has left the Silverstone based team &#8220;to pursue new opportunities&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Smith, who has previously worked with Renault and Red Bull, was already Force India&#8217;s design director.<\/p>\n<p>Key has been with the team, initially as Jordan, since 1998 as a data engineer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wish him every success in his future endeavours,&#8221; said team owner and boss Vijay Mallya.<\/p>\n<p>Key confirmed that the move was his decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt the time was right for me to move on to new opportunities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Smith has been named as Force India&#8217;s new technical director. \u00a0 A media statement said James Key has left the Silverstone based team &#8220;to pursue new opportunities&#8221;.<\/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":[5262,576,801,647,292],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667"}],"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=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}