{"id":13601,"date":"2011-09-05T07:03:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13601"},"modified":"2011-09-05T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:03:46","slug":"karthikeyan-pushing-for-race-seat-before-india-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/karthikeyan-pushing-for-race-seat-before-india-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Karthikeyan pushing for race seat before India return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narain Karthikeyan is &#8220;trying&#8221; to secure a seat for one of the three races leading up to next month&#8217;s Indian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian is still an official driver of the Spanish team HRT, but he was replaced in the racing role mid-season by Red Bull-sponsored Daniel Ricciardo.<\/p>\n<p>Karthikeyan, however, will be back in the car in his native India thanks to a new long term sponsorship with the Hero automotive group, which is controlled by the Indian billionaire Munjal family.<\/p>\n<p>And he told the Indo-Asian News Service: &#8220;I am trying hard to get myself a race before Delhi.\u00a0 It will be a good warm-up for me heading into the home race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HRT&#8217;s driver lineup has already been announced for Monza, but before the inaugural race at the new Buddh circuit F1 will travel to Singapore, Japan and Korea.<\/p>\n<p>As well as his new deal with Hero, 34-year-old Karthikeyan is also still sponsored by Tata, India&#8217;s largest multinational.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to drive in F1 as long as possible,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by Reuters.\u00a0 &#8220;How and when, that will come up in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narain Karthikeyan is &#8220;trying&#8221; to secure a seat for one of the three races leading up to next month&#8217;s Indian grand prix. The Indian is still an official driver of the Spanish team HRT, but he was replaced in the racing role mid-season by Red Bull-sponsored Daniel Ricciardo. Karthikeyan, however, will be back in the &#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":[5262,5340,2326,2327],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601"}],"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=13601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13602,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions\/13602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}