{"id":49515,"date":"2018-04-11T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/04\/11\/formula-e-drivers-ask-the-pope-to-bless-one-of-their-cars\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T15:27:00","slug":"formula-e-drivers-ask-the-pope-to-bless-one-of-their-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/04\/11\/formula-e-drivers-ask-the-pope-to-bless-one-of-their-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula E drivers ask the pope to bless one of their cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days before the Formula E championship takes place on the streets of Rome, the head of the competition, Alejandro Agag, along with world-class riders such as Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne, Lucas Di Grassi and J\u00e9r\u00f4me D'Ambrosio, have asked the pope to bless this model.<\/p>\n<p>This championship of electric-motor cars will take place this weekend in Rome and will unite former Formula 1 drivers and new young talents still in development.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it has a great ecological proposal, the same one the pope promotes in his encyclical Laudato si'.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt's electric. We are going around the world bringing these electric cars to promote clean mobility that we know, your Holiness, you also promote.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis blessed the car and after personally met each of the drivers. He also met and blessed Lucas Di Grassi's wife, who is expecting a baby.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was introduced to the championship winner, Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne and the pope joked with him.<\/p>\n<p><em>'This is who is leading the championship.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>'For now.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With this beautiful final image and Pope Francis' blessing, all are geared up for the 33-lap race with 20 cars set for April 14.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time it is held in Rome and many expect great sports figures to be among the attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 2018. This Saturday former Formula 1 racers like Jean-\u00c9ric Vergne and Lucas Di Grassi will compete in the Rome stage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pi8DykmCjoE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bformulaeeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bformulaeint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}