{"id":13031,"date":"2011-07-07T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T11:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13031"},"modified":"2011-07-07T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T11:29:46","slug":"sponsor-problems-led-to-karthikeyan-exit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sponsor-problems-led-to-karthikeyan-exit-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor problems led to Karthikeyan exit &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsor issues reportedly led to Narain Karthikeyan losing his seat at HRT.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian driver&#8217;s main backers, Tata and Base batteries, are still showing at the Spanish team&#8217;s website.\u00a0 Hispania has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>At Silverstone, HRT regular Vitantonio Liuzzi will for the first time share the garage with Australian rookie Daniel Ricciardo, as part of a new driver deal with Red Bull Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Karthikeyan is officially still on the books as an official driver, amid rumours he might return for the inaugural Indian grand prix in October.<\/p>\n<p>His sponsors Speed, Tata and Base are still showing on his official website, although the Italian magazine Italiaracing claims &#8220;economic difficulties&#8221; meant Karthikeyan lost his seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he learned of the economic difficulties of Narain Karthikeyan, Helmut Marko did not think for a second and reached the agreement with Hispania for the debut of his young protege (Ricciardo),&#8221; read the report.<\/p>\n<p>Karthikeyan was not available a few days ago, and his management has once again been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsor issues reportedly led to Narain Karthikeyan losing his seat at HRT. The Indian driver&#8217;s main backers, Tata and Base batteries, are still showing at the Spanish team&#8217;s website.\u00a0 Hispania has been contacted for comment. At Silverstone, HRT regular Vitantonio Liuzzi will for the first time share the garage with Australian rookie Daniel Ricciardo, as &#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":[1096,5262,5340,842,2327],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031"}],"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=13031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13032,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031\/revisions\/13032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}