{"id":9792,"date":"2010-11-22T06:46:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T11:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2010-11-22T06:46:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T11:46:36","slug":"mallyas-son-eyes-future-in-f1-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mallyas-son-eyes-future-in-f1-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallya&#8217;s son eyes future in F1 management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vijay Mallya&#8217;s son has admitted he will venture into the world of formula one team management in the future.<\/p>\n<p>23-year-old Sidhartha Mallya, with a business degree obtained in London, is already a company director of his billionaire father&#8217;s United Breweries, and he runs the Indian cricket team Royal Challengers.<\/p>\n<p>But his 54-year-old father owns and heads the F1 team Force India, sparking speculation Sidhartha Mallya&#8217;s future is on the pitwall.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Deccan Chronicle: &#8220;It&#8217;s easier to manage a cricket team than F1.\u00a0 (Cricket series) IPL is a short season, but the F1 calendar is spread across nine months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To get the team in shape is a lot of hard work and energy.\u00a0 Due to my commitments within the UB group, I am unable to dedicate 100 per cent to racing at present,&#8221; said Sidhartha Mallya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The transition into F1 will happen in the future,&#8221; he conceded, while indicating that motor racing is not his foremost passion.<\/p>\n<p>Said Mallya: &#8220;After seeing the big-hitting and thrill-a-minute twenty20 (cricket) matches, watching a car go around the circuit for about 65 laps is hopelessly boring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijay Mallya&#8217;s son has admitted he will venture into the world of formula one team management in the future. 23-year-old Sidhartha Mallya, with a business degree obtained in London, is already a company director of his billionaire father&#8217;s United Breweries, and he runs the Indian cricket team Royal Challengers. But his 54-year-old father owns and &#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":[5262,5340,2437,292],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792"}],"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=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9793,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/9793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}