{"id":10960,"date":"2011-02-10T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10960"},"modified":"2011-02-09T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T03:04:57","slug":"heidfeld-to-test-kubicas-renault-at-jerez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/heidfeld-to-test-kubicas-renault-at-jerez\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidfeld to test Kubica&#8217;s Renault at Jerez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld will test Renault&#8217;s new R31 car at Jerez this week.<\/p>\n<p>It had been speculated that the 33-year-old German, who had yet to secure a role in F1 for the 2011 season, was a leading contender to replace his injured former BMW teammate Robert Kubica.<\/p>\n<p>With Pole Kubica in an Italian hospital with multiple injuries following a rally crash, another change to Renault&#8217;s Jerez test schedule is that reserve driver Bruno Senna will be testing this week.<\/p>\n<p>Vitaly Petrov will drive on Thursday and Friday, before Heidfeld and Senna get mileage on the next two days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exact running order for the weekend will be confirmed on Friday evening,&#8221; said the Lotus-sponsored team in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Renault clarified that Heidfeld, with more than 170 grands prix under his belt but no wins, has not yet been definitely appointed as Kubica&#8217;s substitute.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the team said it will &#8220;evaluate Nick Heidfeld, who is a potential replacement for Robert Kubica as a race driver&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld will test Renault&#8217;s new R31 car at Jerez this week. It had been speculated that the 33-year-old German, who had yet to secure a role in F1 for the 2011 season, was a leading contender to replace his injured former BMW teammate Robert Kubica. With Pole Kubica in an Italian hospital with multiple &#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":[5262,5340,5312,2543,98,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960"}],"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=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}