{"id":3046,"date":"2010-03-11T16:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T21:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T21:24:44","slug":"ron-dennis-in-bahrain-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ron-dennis-in-bahrain-pits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Dennis in Bahrain pits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A casually-clothed Ron Dennis was spotted in the McLaren garage in Bahrain on Thursday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Woking based team&#8217;s former team boss, who handed over the role to Martin Whitmarsh last year, said recently he plans to attend &#8220;quite a few races&#8221; in 2010.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old has since been concentrating on the company&#8217;s chairmanship and the establishment of its new road car group.<\/p>\n<p>Following a controversy surrounding its rear wing design, McLaren&#8217;s 2010 car passed scrutineering on Thursday, with the FIA&#8217;s Charlie Whiting telling the BBC that he has seen the MP4-25 &#8220;and I&#8217;m entirely happy with it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Also happy is Williams&#8217; German rookie Nico Hulkenberg, who hinted that a fifth team could be set to join Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes near the top of the pecking order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At (the) Barcelona (test) I think we were either equal to or slightly ahead of Mercedes,&#8221; the 22-year-old told reporters at Sakhir.<\/p>\n<p>And the logos of the technology company HP will be added to Renault&#8217;s single seater both this year and next, following the announcement of a &#8220;major&#8221; sponsorship deal.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A casually-clothed Ron Dennis was spotted in the McLaren garage in Bahrain on Thursday. \u00a0 The Woking based team&#8217;s former team boss, who handed over the role to Martin Whitmarsh last year, said recently he plans to attend &#8220;quite a few races&#8221; in 2010.<\/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":[879,5262,5284,880],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"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=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}