{"id":1348,"date":"2010-01-08T17:09:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T22:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2010-01-08T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:16:03","slug":"villeneuve-still-working-on-f1-return-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/villeneuve-still-working-on-f1-return-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Villeneuve still working on F1 return for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jacques Villeneuve is still not writing off his chances of making a return to formula one in 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 1997 world champion was connected with a seat at the new Lotus team, but the Malaysian outfit ultimately signed Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen.<\/p>\n<p>Media outlets had linked the French-Canadian&#8217;s visit to Lotus&#8217; British headquarters in late November with the possibility of an F1 seat.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people got carried away with the Lotus thing,&#8221; the 38-year-old told auto123.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to pay a visit to my good buddy Gino (Rosato) who&#8217;s now working for Lotus, but that&#8217;s the production car company.\u00a0 It has nothing to do with the new formula one team whatsoever,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Official vacancies on the 2010 F1 grid remain at the Sauber, Renault, Toro Rosso, Campos and USF1 teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, there&#8217;s not much to say for the moment,&#8221; Villeneuve said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I am still working extremely hard to get back in F1 this season.\u00a0 So hard you would not believe it.\u00a0 But for the moment there&#8217;s nothing to announce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking from Melbourne, raising the possibility that he is working on a deal to drive in the Australian V8 Supercar series.<\/p>\n<p>But the report said Villeneuve is not &#8220;devoting one second of his time&#8221; to finding a seat in any series except F1.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Villeneuve is still not writing off his chances of making a return to formula one in 2010. \u00a0 The 1997 world champion was connected with a seat at the new Lotus team, but the Malaysian outfit ultimately signed Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen. Media outlets had linked the French-Canadian&#8217;s visit to Lotus&#8217; British headquarters &#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":[5262,61,60],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348"}],"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=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}