{"id":10866,"date":"2011-02-02T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2011-02-02T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T12:13:08","slug":"razia-admits-bringing-sponsor-to-team-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/razia-admits-bringing-sponsor-to-team-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Razia admits bringing sponsor to Team Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luiz Razia is not hiding the fact that he is taking a personal sponsor to his new appointment with Team Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that, alongside Davide Valsecchi, Brazilian 21-year-old Razia &#8211; a GP2 driver and Virgin reserve in 2010 &#8211; will appear several times during Friday morning practice sessions this year.<\/p>\n<p>A report by Globo Esporte quoted Razia as admitting that &#8220;sponsorship is essential&#8221; for drivers today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not crucial to the team hiring me, but it was welcomed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Razia refused to disclose the name of his main sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment I can&#8217;t say anything,&#8221; he insisted.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ll only talk about it when I am allowed to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report said Razia&#8217;s first outing in the Team Lotus T128 will be at the Bahrain test prior to the 2011 season opener.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luiz Razia is not hiding the fact that he is taking a personal sponsor to his new appointment with Team Lotus. It has been reported that, alongside Davide Valsecchi, Brazilian 21-year-old Razia &#8211; a GP2 driver and Virgin reserve in 2010 &#8211; will appear several times during Friday morning practice sessions this year. A report &#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":[2241,2399,5262,5340,2418,2775],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866"}],"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=10866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10867,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions\/10867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}