{"id":13425,"date":"2011-08-19T07:29:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13425"},"modified":"2011-08-19T07:29:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:29:13","slug":"de-villota-in-talks-for-f1-test-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/de-villota-in-talks-for-f1-test-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"De Villota in talks for F1 test seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariadevillota.es\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maria de Villota<\/a>&#8216;s management is in talks to secure the 31-year-old a test driver seat in formula one.<\/p>\n<p>The Renault team on Thursday confirmed reports the daughter of former Spanish F1 driver Emilio de Villota recently made her F1 test debut in a 2009 car at Paul Ricard.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s AS newspaper said it was the &#8220;beginning of a journey that could take Maria to the grands prix&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ultimate goal is to reach the grid and it&#8217;s a shorter term project than you might think,&#8221; added the report.<\/p>\n<p>De Villota is quoted as saying: &#8220;I&#8217;ve always wanted to reach formula one and after this test I know more clearly than ever that I can do it, I can drive a F1 car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Physically and as a driver I&#8217;m at my best, so I have to use it.\u00a0 We are working on it already.\u00a0 It will not be overnight, but we have to do it soon,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Renault said di Villota completed 300 kilometres at a &#8220;very reasonable pace&#8221;, with team boss Eric Boullier adding that she did not &#8220;put a foot wrong all day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria de Villota&#8216;s management is in talks to secure the 31-year-old a test driver seat in formula one. The Renault team on Thursday confirmed reports the daughter of former Spanish F1 driver Emilio de Villota recently made her F1 test debut in a 2009 car at Paul Ricard. Spain&#8217;s AS newspaper said it was 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":[5262,5340,535,55],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425"}],"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=13425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13426,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions\/13426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}