{"id":2509,"date":"2005-05-04T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/04\/\/"},"modified":"2005-05-04T17:43:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T21:43:27","slug":"the-ferrari-formula-1-team-fired-their-entire-pit-crew-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/the-ferrari-formula-1-team-fired-their-entire-pit-crew-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ferrari Formula 1 Team fired their entire pit crew yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>.The announcement followed Ferrari&#8217;s decision to take advantage of the UK Government&#8217;s Youth Opportunity Scheme and employ people from Liverpool.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision to hire them was brought on by a recent documentary on how unemployed youths from Liverpool area were able to remove a set of wheels in less than 6 seconds without proper equipment, whereas Ferrari&#8217;s existing crew can only do it in 8 seconds with millions of euros worth of high tech equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Tony Blair went on record as saying this was a bold move by the Ferrari management, which demonstrated the international recognition of the UK under Labour.<\/p>\n<p>As most races are won and lost in the pits, Ferrari now have the advantage over every team. However, Ferrari may have got more than they bargained for.<\/p>\n<p>At the crew&#8217;s first practice session the Liverpool pit crew successfully changed the tyres in under 6 seconds, but within 12 seconds they had re-sprayed, re-badged, and sold the vehicle to the McLaren Team for 8 bottles of Stella, a kilo of speed and some photos of Coulthard&#8217;s bird in the shower.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks Tintu!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.The announcement followed Ferrari&#8217;s decision to take advantage of the UK Government&#8217;s Youth Opportunity Scheme and employ people from Liverpool. The decision to hire them was brought on by a recent documentary on how unemployed youths from Liverpool area were able to remove a set of wheels in less than 6 seconds without proper equipment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}