{"id":4410,"date":"2010-04-14T06:49:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2010-04-14T06:49:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:49:36","slug":"pat-symonds-set-for-f1-return-as-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pat-symonds-set-for-f1-return-as-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Symonds set for F1 return as &#8216;consultant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">F1&#8217;s other banned &#8216;crashgate&#8217; conspirator, Pat Symonds, could soon resume a role in the sport.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following news that the scandal has ended due to a settlement with the FIA, it is already rumoured that ousted Renault boss Flavio Briatore could be back in the paddock with a role alongside Bernie Ecclestone in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>But Symonds, the British engineering veteran who previously admitted scheming with Nelson Piquet to crash deliberately during the 2008 Singapore GP, could be back in F1 almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>While no longer pushing for Briatore&#8217;s lifetime ban, or Symonds&#8217; 5-year ban, the FIA said on Monday that the pair have &#8220;undertaken to abstain from having any operational role&#8221; until 2013.<\/p>\n<p>But Symonds, 56, has clarified in a statement that his own company Neutrino Dynamics could be engaged for F1 consultancy work immediately.<\/p>\n<p>As distinct from the FIA&#8217;s statement, Symonds said he has promised not to take on &#8220;a direct operational role&#8221; in F1 until 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This agreement does not prevent him acting as a consultant to any team during this period and he will continue to contribute to the sport in this, and other, ways,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s other banned &#8216;crashgate&#8217; conspirator, Pat Symonds, could soon resume a role in the sport.<\/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":[5262,5300,252,5261,5340,1330,276],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410"}],"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=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}