{"id":14330,"date":"2011-11-21T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14330"},"modified":"2011-11-21T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:05:08","slug":"williams-to-announce-2012-lineup-within-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-to-announce-2012-lineup-within-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams to announce 2012 lineup &#8216;within a week&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams&#8217; decision about its 2012 driver lineup is nearing.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in Germany&#8217;s Speed Week, Peter Hesseler said the famous British team &#8220;plans to decide within a week&#8221; who will be driving the two cars next season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is what shareholder Toto Wolff is saying,&#8221; he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>On the face of it, Pastor Maldonado&#8217;s seat is safe, but reports say his lucrative backing by state owned oil company PDVSA is set to be investigated by the Venezuelan parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, it is Rubens Barrichello who is the most worried, with a trio of candidates including Kimi Raikkonen, Adrian Sutil and Valterri Bottas all reportedly in the running.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Autosprint reports that Raikkonen is &#8220;ready to sign&#8221; a one-season deal so that he is free to switch to Mercedes, presumably to replace Michael Schumacher, in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Dutchman Giedo van der Garde is also a contender.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams&#8217; decision about its 2012 driver lineup is nearing. Writing in Germany&#8217;s Speed Week, Peter Hesseler said the famous British team &#8220;plans to decide within a week&#8221; who will be driving the two cars next season. &#8220;This is what shareholder Toto Wolff is saying,&#8221; he revealed. On the face of it, Pastor Maldonado&#8217;s seat is &#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":[5311,5262,5340,152,352,3388,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330"}],"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=14330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14331,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions\/14331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}