{"id":4542,"date":"2010-04-17T06:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2010-04-17T06:32:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:32:49","slug":"mika-salo-to-be-f1-steward-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mika-salo-to-be-f1-steward-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Mika Salo to be F1 steward in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mika Salo has become the latest former driver to agree to become a fourth formula one steward in 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old Finn contested more than 100 grands prix until 2002 with the likes of Lotus, Tyrrell, Arrows, BAR, Ferrari, Sauber and Toyota.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was asked and I agreed to do a race this season,&#8221; Salo, in Abu Dhabi this weekend to race in the GT1 category, is quoted as saying by Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat.<\/p>\n<p>He said he doesn&#8217;t know when he will make his debut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The invitation comes a week before the race.\u00a0 It comes when it comes,&#8221; said Salo.<\/p>\n<p>He said he supports new FIA president Jean Todt&#8217;s initiative to have a well-known and experienced driver sit alongside the regular F1 stewards at grands prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For sure a driver sees the situation differently to someone who has never before driven a racing car or in F1,&#8221; said Salo.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mika Salo has become the latest former driver to agree to become a fourth formula one steward 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":[53,3],"tags":[5262,906,5261,5340,104],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542"}],"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=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}