{"id":13589,"date":"2011-09-02T22:19:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T02:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13589"},"modified":"2011-09-02T22:19:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T02:19:46","slug":"heidfeld-settles-renault-confirms-senna-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/heidfeld-settles-renault-confirms-senna-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidfeld settles, Renault confirms Senna for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An out of court settlement between the team and axed driver Nick Heidfeld has cleared the way for Renault to sign Bruno Senna for the rest of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A media statement said German Heidfeld, who had hoped to return to the R31 in Singapore after a London High Court hearing, has reached &#8220;an amicable settlement&#8221; with Renault.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old and the team have therefore &#8220;chosen to part company with immediate effect&#8221;, with Renault boss Eric Boullier describing it a &#8220;swift and reasonable solution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our separation process was already a painful one, and neither of us wanted to go through another legal hearing,&#8221; added the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p>Renault promptly confirmed Brazilian Senna as Vitaly Petrov&#8217;s new regular teammate for the remainder of 2011, with new GP2 champion Romain Grosjean as the reserve.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An out of court settlement between the team and axed driver Nick Heidfeld has cleared the way for Renault to sign Bruno Senna for the rest of 2011. A media statement said German Heidfeld, who had hoped to return to the R31 in Singapore after a London High Court hearing, has reached &#8220;an amicable settlement&#8221; &#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":[381,251,5262,5340,3282,98,55],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589"}],"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=13589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13590,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions\/13590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}