{"id":3453,"date":"2009-03-12T17:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T01:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2009-03-17T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:49:15","slug":"automobile-ford-racing-boss-making-best-of-bearish-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3453","title":{"rendered":"Automobile &#8211; Ford Racing boss making best of bearish economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Wolfe has learned to live with less and, hopefully, make it work.<\/p>\n<p>The director of Ford\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s North American motorsports program since the middle of 2008 came from the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s power train unit, where he says budget and personnel cuts were a way of life long before the economy began crashing down around everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heads.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no easy jobs at the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers),\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wolfe said Thursday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been at Ford for 27 years now in a variety of leadership positions and you learn to focus on what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really critical to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And being successful means I have to have a winning platform and championship capable teams and I have &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-fordracing&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Wolfe has learned to live with less and, hopefully, make it work. The director of Ford\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s North American motorsports program since the middle of 2008 came from the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s power train unit, where he says budget and personnel cuts were a way of life long before the economy began crashing down around everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heads. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","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=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}