{"id":4684,"date":"2010-04-21T06:40:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2010-04-21T06:35:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:35:24","slug":"montezemolo-steps-down-at-fiat-wants-rossi-in-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/montezemolo-steps-down-at-fiat-wants-rossi-in-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezemolo steps down at Fiat, wants Rossi in F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Luca di Montezemolo has stepped down as chairman of the Italian carmaker Fiat.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He will, however, remain president of Ferrari, with 34-year-old John Elkann &#8211; a descendant of the founding Agnelli family &#8211; replacing him at Fiat because Montezemolo has &#8220;finished the task&#8221; he began in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Montezemolo, 62, denied the move is a precursor to moving into Italian politics or even founding his own party, insisting he is staying on the Fiat board and will not stop heading Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, Montezemolo announced that he still wants &#8220;major teams&#8221; such as Ferrari &#8220;and McLaren&#8221; to be allowed to enter third cars in grands prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want a third car and I would do everything to have Valentino (Rossi),&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he wins this year&#8217;s MotoGP, enough is enough, he must also win in formula one,&#8221; the Ferrari chairman and president added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca di Montezemolo has stepped down as chairman of the Italian carmaker Fiat.<\/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":[5262,93,718,5261,5340,148,445],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684"}],"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=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}