{"id":9658,"date":"2010-11-15T06:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T11:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2010-11-15T06:38:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T11:38:47","slug":"branson-leaves-abu-dhabi-with-airasia-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/branson-leaves-abu-dhabi-with-airasia-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"Branson leaves Abu Dhabi with AirAsia uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Sir Richard Branson left Abu Dhabi on Sunday with an AirAsia stewardess uniform in his luggage.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">It was given to him by Tony Fernandes, the owner of the low-cost Malaysian airline and the F1 team currently known as Lotus.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">At the beginning of the season, Fernandes and fellow airline owner Branson, figurehead the Virgin team, wagered that the worst of the F1 newcomers would host the other on a low-haul flight &#8212; dressed as a stewardess.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8220;He&#8217;ll have to work the whole flight. \u00a0He&#8217;ll have to serve, he&#8217;ll have to clean, he&#8217;ll have to clean the toilets,&#8221; Fernandes is quoted by Reuters, after Lotus Racing finished the 2010 season in the coveted tenth place.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Virgin finished last, behind HRT.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8220;Watch out London-KL,&#8221; Fernandes wrote on Twitter.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Smiled billionaire Branson: &#8220;The only positive thing is we own 20 per cent of his company so I&#8217;ll be able to get some promotion for a company I have a stake in.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Also defeated and leaving Abu Dhabi with a much heavier heart is Mark Webber, who finishes the championship just third and was absent as Red Bull partied loudly on Sunday night to celebrate Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s title.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">&#8220;He&#8217;s down really, to be honest with you,&#8221; his father Alan admitted.<\/div>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson left Abu Dhabi on Sunday with an AirAsia stewardess uniform in his luggage. It was given to him by Tony Fernandes, the owner of the low-cost Malaysian airline and the F1 team currently known as Lotus. At the beginning of the season, Fernandes and fellow airline owner Branson, figurehead the Virgin team, &#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":[5262,5340,817,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658"}],"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=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9659,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions\/9659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}