{"id":12041,"date":"2011-04-26T06:59:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T10:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12041"},"modified":"2011-04-26T06:59:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T10:59:59","slug":"report-links-canadian-with-virgin-reserve-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/report-links-canadian-with-virgin-reserve-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Report links Canadian with Virgin reserve role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian is at the front of the queue to become the next reserve driver for the Virgin team.<\/p>\n<p>The role is vacant at present following Sakon Yamamoto&#8217;s contract that covered only the first three grands prix of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto based Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail said Robert Wickens, 22, is linked with the role given his new backing in the Formula Renault 3.5 series by Virgin&#8217;s Russian sponsor and shareholder Marussia.<\/p>\n<p>In the series, he uses a car and overalls coloured in the exact designs of the formula one team.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said the former F2 and GP3 driver&#8217;s Virgin deal could be in place for the Canadian grand prix in June, and possibly much sooner.<\/p>\n<p>The last Canadian in formula one was 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve, who lost his BMW seat in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian is at the front of the queue to become the next reserve driver for the Virgin team. The role is vacant at present following Sakon Yamamoto&#8217;s contract that covered only the first three grands prix of 2011. The Toronto based Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail said Robert Wickens, 22, is linked with the &#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":[5262,5340,3027,359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041"}],"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=12041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12042,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions\/12042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}