{"id":13453,"date":"2011-08-21T00:02:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T04:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13453"},"modified":"2011-08-20T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T01:34:09","slug":"jordan-thinks-renault-bullying-heidfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/jordan-thinks-renault-bullying-heidfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan thinks Renault &#8216;bullying&#8217; Heidfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Jordan suspects Renault team management are guilty of &#8220;bullying&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The former F1 team owner and boss, now a pundit for British television, is referring to Eric Boullier and Gerard Lopez&#8217;s outspoken criticism of Nick Heidfeld&#8217;s results and leadership qualities.<\/p>\n<p>German veteran Heidfeld replaced injured regular Robert Kubica this season, but now Renault test drivers Bruno Senna and Romain Grosjean are being linked with the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Irishman Jordan told Sport Bild he has a theory about the pressure being put on Heidfeld.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could even be described as bullying,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They probably want to wear him down so he throws in the towel voluntarily.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jordan, however, has a high opinion of 34-year-old Heidfeld.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, he is Mr Consistency.\u00a0 I know this because Nick drove for me for a year.\u00a0 2004 was a very difficult year for Jordan financially, and we could not give him the car that he deserved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The same is true also at the moment of the Lotus-Renault,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Jordan suspects Renault team management are guilty of &#8220;bullying&#8221;. The former F1 team owner and boss, now a pundit for British television, is referring to Eric Boullier and Gerard Lopez&#8217;s outspoken criticism of Nick Heidfeld&#8217;s results and leadership qualities. German veteran Heidfeld replaced injured regular Robert Kubica this season, but now Renault test drivers &#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":[451,5262,5340,98,55],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453"}],"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=13453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13454,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13453\/revisions\/13454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}