{"id":6874,"date":"2010-07-08T22:06:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T02:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2010-07-09T07:09:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T11:09:56","slug":"cosworth-staying-in-2011-as-chairman-williams-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/cosworth-staying-in-2011-as-chairman-williams-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosworth staying in 2011 as chairman Williams steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams will continue to be powered by Cosworth engines in 2011, the British team said in the Silverstone paddock on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It had been rumoured that the team was eyeing a switch to Renault, but Cosworth&#8217;s Mark Gallagher responded by insisting a three-year contract is in place.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the duration of the current contract, and the fact the situation will be unchanged in 2011, it is believed the Grove based outfit will not issue a media statement to confirm the identity of its ongoing engine supplier for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Also announced by Williams on Thursday is that chief executive Adam Parr is now taking over as chairman, even though Sir Frank Williams remains the official team principal.<\/p>\n<p>But Parr&#8217;s new role hands him full responsibility of the day-to-day running of the team, with long-time boss and majority shareholder Williams, 68, still having the final say on decisions.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams will continue to be powered by Cosworth engines in 2011, the British team said in the Silverstone paddock on Thursday. It had been rumoured that the team was eyeing a switch to Renault, but Cosworth&#8217;s Mark Gallagher responded by insisting a three-year contract is in place. Due to the duration of the current contract, &#8230;<\/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":[1451,353,5262,5340,358,541],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874"}],"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=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6875,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions\/6875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}