{"id":13457,"date":"2011-08-22T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13457"},"modified":"2011-08-22T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T11:12:07","slug":"hrt-admits-eyeing-spanish-race-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hrt-admits-eyeing-spanish-race-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"HRT admits eyeing Spanish race driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The HRT team has admitted it is looking around for a Spanish driver.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Thesan Capital taking over recently and dropping the Hispania moniker and flag logo, the back-of-the-grid team said it is still committed to upping its Spanish identity.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, young Spaniard Javier Villa was linked with a potential 2012 seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The possibility of incorporating a Spanish driver for next season is something that the team would like,&#8221; HRT said on its website.\u00a0 &#8220;But there is a big step from that to actually having a deal with a driver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The team defended its decision to drop the Hispania name and Spanish flag logo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hispania was the name of the business group belonging to the previous owners, so the change in direction meant that the team name had to change too,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HRT was chosen because it is the name of the chassis.\u00a0 The flag was part of the logo so when we changed the logo the flag went too.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t worry, it will be back on the car at some stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HRT team has admitted it is looking around for a Spanish driver. Despite Thesan Capital taking over recently and dropping the Hispania moniker and flag logo, the back-of-the-grid team said it is still committed to upping its Spanish identity. Recently, young Spaniard Javier Villa was linked with a potential 2012 seat. &#8220;The possibility of &#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":[5262,5340,842],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457"}],"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=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13458,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions\/13458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}