{"id":13506,"date":"2011-08-25T20:42:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13506"},"modified":"2011-08-25T20:42:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T00:42:13","slug":"heidfeld-at-spa-and-still-under-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/heidfeld-at-spa-and-still-under-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidfeld at Spa and still under contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld has made an appearance in the Spa-Francorchamps paddock as he bids to hold on to his Renault race seat.<\/p>\n<p>Although still wearing a team shirt, the veteran German has been dropped for Belgium and also Monza in two weeks in deference to Bruno Senna, who is reportedly carrying some Brazilian sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>But Heidfeld told reporters his contract remains valid.<\/p>\n<p>Both Senna and also Renault on Thursday referred to &#8220;legal issues&#8221; that are holding up the confirmation of Vitaly Petrov&#8217;s new teammate for the remainder of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Heidfeld, 34, suggested the matter will be cleared up in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team&#8217;s present intention is to give Bruno the opportunity to race for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, some legal issues have not been fully resolved as yet and, as a result, the team will make another announcement on this matter in due course,&#8221; said Renault in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The team confirmed that Heidfeld &#8220;remains contracted to the team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld has made an appearance in the Spa-Francorchamps paddock as he bids to hold on to his Renault race seat. Although still wearing a team shirt, the veteran German has been dropped for Belgium and also Monza in two weeks in deference to Bruno Senna, who is reportedly carrying some Brazilian sponsorship. But Heidfeld &#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":[5262,5340,98,55,90],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506"}],"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=13506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13507,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions\/13507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}