{"id":1292,"date":"2010-01-07T19:16:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T00:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2010-01-07T19:16:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T00:16:11","slug":"kubicas-teammate-unlikely-to-be-french-boullier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kubicas-teammate-unlikely-to-be-french-boullier\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubica&#8217;s teammate unlikely to be French &#8211; Boullier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Robert Kubica&#8217;s teammate at Renault in 2010 is not likely to be a Frenchman, Eric Boullier has admitted.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Enstone based team, recently taken over by Luxembourg based investment company Genii Capital, has installed the 36-year-old Frenchman as its new permanent boss.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Boullier told French radio RMC that none of his countrymen are high on the list of potential teammates for the 25-year-old Pole Kubica.<\/p>\n<p>Boullier&#8217;s comments are a blow to Romain Grosjean, the Swiss born Frenchman who completed the 2009 season for Renault and had hoped to retain the seat this season.<\/p>\n<p>He said the shortlist for the second cockpit has been recently reduced from ten to just five drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are several possible scenarios, one of them French,&#8221; said Boullier.\u00a0 &#8220;But, today, that is the scenario with perhaps the least chance of success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said earlier this week that Kubica&#8217;s teammate could be &#8220;a Gravity driver&#8221;, or one of those from within the stable of the Genii-linked driver management outfit Gravity Sport, such as Ho-Pin Tung or Jerome d&#8217;Ambrosio.<\/p>\n<p>Boullier told RMC: &#8220;We have made progress but are still far from being able to disclose the (driver&#8217;s) name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kubica&#8217;s teammate at Renault in 2010 is not likely to be a Frenchman, Eric Boullier has admitted. \u00a0 The Enstone based team, recently taken over by Luxembourg based investment company Genii Capital, has installed the 36-year-old Frenchman as its new permanent boss.<\/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":[251,5262,127,274,55,96,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292"}],"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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}