{"id":3127,"date":"2010-03-13T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T13:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2010-03-13T08:04:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T13:04:22","slug":"andretti-to-get-involved-with-new-lotus-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/andretti-to-get-involved-with-new-lotus-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Andretti to get involved with new Lotus team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mario Andretti on Saturday said he will get involved with the new Malaysian backed formula one team Lotus.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Italian-American, in Bahrain for Saturday&#8217;s on-track display of F1&#8217;s 60 year history, won the world championship at the wheel of the famous black Lotus 79 in 1978.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The relaunched team is not directly connected to the original Lotus, but 60-year-old Andretti said the new management has asked him to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There might become a little bit more of an involvement on my part, because they seem to be very proud of the brand that obviously they are there representing,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what form his involvement will take, the winner of 12 grands prix answered: &#8220;We&#8217;ll see &#8212; stay tuned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked to comment as an American on the failure of the USF1 team, he said Ken Anderson and Peter Windsor had been &#8220;shooting too high&#8221;, and he called the absence on the calendar of a US grand prix an &#8220;unthinkable travesty&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Andretti on Saturday said he will get involved with the new Malaysian backed formula one team Lotus. \u00a0 The Italian-American, in Bahrain for Saturday&#8217;s on-track display of F1&#8217;s 60 year history, won the world championship at the wheel of the famous black Lotus 79 in 1978.<\/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":[5262,306,377],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127"}],"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=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}