{"id":13908,"date":"2011-10-12T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13908"},"modified":"2011-10-12T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:00:36","slug":"wickens-turns-sights-to-2012-f1-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/wickens-turns-sights-to-2012-f1-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickens turns sights to 2012 F1 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A race seat with Virgin could be the next step for Canadian Robert Wickens.<\/p>\n<p>Driving in Virgin and title sponsor Marussia&#8217;s colours this season, the 22-year-old wrapped up the Renault World Series championship in Spain last weekend while F1 raced at Suzuka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to celebrating with him this weekend in Korea,&#8221; announced Virgin&#8217;s F1 team boss John Booth.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, Wickens was announced as the F1 team&#8217;s new reserve driver.<\/p>\n<p>And while the formula one world was in Japan last weekend, the Belgian newspaper De Morgen reported that Wickens is in the running for a 2012 seat because he has &#8220;more (sponsorship) money&#8221; to offer than Jerome d&#8217;Ambrosio.<\/p>\n<p>Wickens told the Toronto newspaper Globe and Mail: &#8220;F1 has always been the goal in my whole career and now I am the closest I have ever been.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Definitely, I will switch now to trying to secure a seat for next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, if I could get corporate Canada&#8217;s support it would be a dream come true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A race seat with Virgin could be the next step for Canadian Robert Wickens. Driving in Virgin and title sponsor Marussia&#8217;s colours this season, the 22-year-old wrapped up the Renault World Series championship in Spain last weekend while F1 raced at Suzuka. &#8220;We look forward to celebrating with him this weekend in Korea,&#8221; announced Virgin&#8217;s &#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":[636,5262,5340,372,3027,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908"}],"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=13908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13909,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions\/13909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}