{"id":27017,"date":"2010-01-25T21:38:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T04:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=27017"},"modified":"2010-01-25T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T04:38:13","slug":"team-us-f1-confirms-lopez-as-its-first-racer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=27017","title":{"rendered":"Team US F1 confirms Lopez as its first racer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">US F1 Team announced late Monday that the Charlotte-based team has signed former Renault F1 test driver, Jose Maria Lopez, to race for the team in its first World Championship. season. Lopez, 26, who goes by the nickname of &#8220;Pechito,&#8221; is the first driver to be confirmed by the start-up team run by Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson. The deal was officially announced by the president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, in the Casa Rosada (Government House) in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Securing &#8216;Pechito&#8217; Lopez for our debut season has\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/team-us-f1-confirms-lopez-as-its-first-racer\/article\/162297\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US F1 Team announced late Monday that the Charlotte-based team has signed former Renault F1 test driver, Jose Maria Lopez, to race for the team in its first World Championship. season. Lopez, 26, who goes by the nickname of &#8220;Pechito,&#8221; is the first driver to be confirmed by the start-up team run by Peter Windsor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27018,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27017\/revisions\/27018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}