{"id":196420,"date":"2018-06-25T19:56:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T22:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=196420"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:55:06","slug":"saudi-businesswoman-races-f1-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-businesswoman-races-f1-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi businesswoman races F1 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 On Sunday (24), the day Saudi Arabian women were finally awarded the right to drive cars, the Renault team invited Saudi native Aseel Al-Hamad to drive a Formula 1 car. She took a lap around the Paul Ricard Circuit in Le Castellet, a few hours prior to the beginning of the first French Grand Prix in ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Hamad raced a 2012 Lotus-Renault E20, on board which Finland\u2019s Kimi Raikkonen won the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope this (driving a F1 car) on the day women earned the right to drive on Saudi Arabia\u2019s highways will show what you can do if you have the passion and the spirit to dream,\u201d a Renault press release quoted her as saying.<\/p>\n<p>A businesswoman, Al-Hamad sits on the boards of the Saudi Arabian Motor Federation and the International Automobile Federation (FIA, in the French acronym).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lDByotNazik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch a video of Al-Hamad\u2019s lap on the official Formula 1 YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-196427\">Florent Gooden\/DPPI Media\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aseel Al-Hamad was invited by Renault to take a lap at Paul Ricard Circuit prior to the French Grand Prix. Since Sunday, Saudi Arabian women are now legally allowed to drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":196427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[3431,29909,3437,3438,393,2354],"class_list":{"0":"post-196420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aseel-al-hamad","9":"tag-formula-1-en-2","10":"tag-french-grand-prix","11":"tag-paul-ricard-circuit","12":"tag-saudi-arabia","13":"tag-women"},"wps_subtitle":"Aseel Al-Hamad was invited by Renault to take a lap at Paul Ricard Circuit prior to the French Grand Prix. Since Sunday, Saudi Arabian women are now legally allowed to drive. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}