{"id":10492,"date":"2011-01-14T06:55:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T11:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10492"},"modified":"2011-01-14T06:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T11:55:39","slug":"renault-to-race-with-british-license-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-to-race-with-british-license-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault to race with British license in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renault will race in formula one this year with a British license.<\/p>\n<p>It means that if Robert Kubica or Vitaly Petrov win a race, it will be God Save The Queen rather than La Marseillaise that is played on the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Boulogne-Billancourt headquartered Renault SA&#8217;s ownership of the Oxfordshire based team was one of France&#8217;s last remaining links to F1.<\/p>\n<p>But the team, previously operating under a French racing license, is now co-owned by Luxembourg investment firm Genii Capital and the Malaysian-owned British sports car marque Group Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>There is also no French grand prix or active race driver in F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lotus is an English manufacturer,&#8221; Renault team boss Eric Boullier explained at the Autosport International show in Birmingham, referring to the outfit&#8217;s new title sponsor and partner.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the change of identity for Lotus Renault GP is &#8220;important for everybody inside the team&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are rebranding everything inside the company now,&#8221; added Frenchman Boullier.<\/p>\n<p>Renault SA&#8217;s official involvement in F1 this year will be limited to engine supply, with Renault Sport F1 providing V8s to customers Lotus Renault GP, Team Lotus and Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renault will race in formula one this year with a British license. It means that if Robert Kubica or Vitaly Petrov win a race, it will be God Save The Queen rather than La Marseillaise that is played on the podium. Boulogne-Billancourt headquartered Renault SA&#8217;s ownership of the Oxfordshire based team was one of France&#8217;s &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[251,5262,5340,2543],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492"}],"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=10492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10493,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10492\/revisions\/10493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}