{"id":10044,"date":"2010-12-09T06:51:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T11:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10044"},"modified":"2010-12-09T06:51:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T11:51:43","slug":"lotus-bahar-tips-petrov-to-keep-renault-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-bahar-tips-petrov-to-keep-renault-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus&#8217; Bahar tips Petrov to keep Renault seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Vitaly Petrov looks likely to stay in formula one next year following the rebranding of his 2010 employer as Lotus Renault GP.<\/p>\n<p>With the 26-year-old rookie in the cockpit financed by his personal backers, the Enstone based team then benefitted from new Russian sponsors including Vyborg Shipyard, Flagman vodka and the carmaker Lada.<\/p>\n<p>And media reports, including the Malaysian state news agency Bernama, said Group Lotus parent Proton will also &#8220;benefit immensely&#8221; from the Renault team buy-in &#8220;by gaining access to Russia&#8217;s automotive market and automotive technologies owned by (team owneer) Genii&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As the highest profile Russian link, Petrov might now be feeling more secure for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Proton confirmed: &#8220;Genii is &#8230; offering Proton the ability to leverage on its existing business relationships in Russia and other parts of the world as a means to expand (our) global reach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Group Lotus CEO Dany Bahar admitted on BBC radio on Wednesday that Russian Petrov is well-placed to keep his seat in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our preferred choice is Vitaly Petrov,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but I hope that the team will be able to announce by the end of the year the final lineup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Vitaly Petrov looks likely to stay in formula one next year following the rebranding of his 2010 employer as Lotus Renault GP. With the 26-year-old rookie in the cockpit financed by his personal backers, the Enstone based team then benefitted from new Russian sponsors including Vyborg Shipyard, Flagman vodka and the carmaker Lada. And &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[2544,5262,5340,415],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10045,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions\/10045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}