{"id":10324,"date":"2011-01-05T06:34:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2011-01-05T06:34:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T11:34:19","slug":"petrov-wants-to-race-ferrari-and-mclaren-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/petrov-wants-to-race-ferrari-and-mclaren-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrov wants to race Ferrari and McLaren in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Petrov has announced he will try to re-pay Russia&#8217;s support by being a formula one frontrunner in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has a new two-year contract with Renault, but prime minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Petrov &#8220;needs financial support&#8221; whilst announcing state technology company Rostekhnologii as a new sponsor for the Vyborn-born driver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will try to do everything in my hands to fight with the leaders Ferrari and McLaren,&#8221; said Petrov after his meeting with Putin and industry leaders, according to Spanish sports newspaper Marca.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will see how the team has prepared the new car,&#8221; added Petrov, who said the new black and gold Renault&#8217;s performance will depend heavily on the February tests.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said: &#8220;Vitaly Petrov is becoming increasingly known by motor racing fans.\u00a0 He has signed a contract for two years and obviously needs help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mainly financial support.\u00a0 So we met to discuss this issue,&#8221; he revealed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Petrov has announced he will try to re-pay Russia&#8217;s support by being a formula one frontrunner in 2011. The 26-year-old has a new two-year contract with Renault, but prime minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Petrov &#8220;needs financial support&#8221; whilst announcing state technology company Rostekhnologii as a new sponsor for the Vyborn-born driver. &#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":[5262,5340,55,415,827],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324"}],"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=10324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}