{"id":12815,"date":"2011-06-16T06:51:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12815"},"modified":"2011-06-16T06:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T10:51:13","slug":"renault-eyes-sponsors-for-senna-race-debut-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-eyes-sponsors-for-senna-race-debut-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault eyes sponsors for Senna race debut &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Senna could soon replace Nick Heidfeld in injured regular Robert Kubica&#8217;s Renault race seat.<\/p>\n<p>According to Auto Motor und Sport, team owner Gerard Lopez spent some time before the Canadian grand prix in reserve driver Senna&#8217;s native Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The Luxembourg businessman was reportedly looking for sponsors, on the assumption 27-year-old Senna is drafted in to replace German Heidfeld, who is under pressure by the Enstone based team to up his pace.<\/p>\n<p>Renault figures have played down recent rumours of financial trouble, but the German magazine insists the team &#8220;desperately needs money&#8221;, including to pay outstanding bills to its engine supplier.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed, however, that 34-year-old Heidfeld&#8217;s place is not immediately in doubt, despite him crashing out in Montreal after hitting the rear of Kamui Kobayashi&#8217;s Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until the crash, his race had been perfect,&#8221; said team boss Eric Boullier.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Senna could soon replace Nick Heidfeld in injured regular Robert Kubica&#8217;s Renault race seat. According to Auto Motor und Sport, team owner Gerard Lopez spent some time before the Canadian grand prix in reserve driver Senna&#8217;s native Brazil. The Luxembourg businessman was reportedly looking for sponsors, on the assumption 27-year-old Senna is drafted in &#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":[381,251,5262,5340,58,98,55],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815"}],"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=12815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12816,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions\/12816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}