{"id":3138,"date":"2010-03-13T11:06:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T16:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2010-03-13T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T16:06:31","slug":"fia-asks-mansell-to-be-f1-steward-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-asks-mansell-to-be-f1-steward-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA asks Mansell to be F1 steward in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nigel Mansell is considering the FIA&#8217;s invitation to be a steward at one or two grands prix in 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FIA president Jean Todt&#8217;s initiative, where experienced drivers are installed as a fourth steward at each world championship round this year, is designed to speed up and give credibility to the adjudicating decisions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Already lined up to take part are Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Alex Wurz, while Alain Prost is fulfilling the role this weekend in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>1996 world champion Damon Hill will be the fourth steward at Monaco and also another race in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important drivers give their perspective on the sport,&#8221; he said in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>55-year-old Prost, the most successful driver in F1&#8217;s history behind Michael Schumacher, has indicated that he might reprise his Bahrain role later this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an experiment; we will see how it goes,&#8221; said the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p>He admits that the contribution of well-known and highly regarded drivers will give the stewards&#8217; decisions more credibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exactly,&#8221; Prost is quoted as saying by the BBC.\u00a0 &#8220;That is what Jean wanted to do, and that is why I made the effort to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Mansell is considering the FIA&#8217;s invitation to be a steward at one or two grands prix in 2010. \u00a0 FIA president Jean Todt&#8217;s initiative, where experienced drivers are installed as a fourth steward at each world championship round this year, is designed to speed up and give credibility to the adjudicating decisions.<\/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":[5262,906,5300,288],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138"}],"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=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}