{"id":474485,"date":"2023-12-30T07:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T11:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474485"},"modified":"2023-12-30T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T11:56:35","slug":"racing-legend-gil-de-ferran-dies-aged-56","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/racing-legend-gil-de-ferran-dies-aged-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing legend Gil de Ferran dies aged 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gil de Ferran, a winner of Indianapolis 500 and former Sporting Director for McLaren and Honda at Formua 1, has passed away at the age of 56.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The FIA is saddened by the passing of Gil de Ferran. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bA1A1NHLJe\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bA1A1NHLJe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIA (@fia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fia\/status\/1741030689221611973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The French-born Brazilian made a name for himself back in the early 90s, when he won the British Formula 3 championship and finishing third in the International Formula 3000.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of making the big step into Formula 1, De Ferran opted to board to America &#8211; a decision, that would bring him two Champ Car titles and victory at Indy 500 in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>After retirement De Ferran got into a managerial role as a Sporting Director of BAR-Honda in the mid-2000s and then at McLaren between 2018 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very shocked and deeply saddened by the news that we have lost Gil de Ferran,\u201d said Formula 1 President and CEO Stefano Domenicali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gil de Ferran, a winner of Indianapolis 500 and former Sporting Director for McLaren and Honda at Formua 1, has passed away at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":474486,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[22476],"acf":{"announce":"The former Indy 500 winner has passed away","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474487,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474485\/revisions\/474487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474485"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474485"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}