{"id":14340,"date":"2011-11-22T07:08:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T12:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14340"},"modified":"2011-11-22T07:08:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T12:08:31","slug":"hrt-surprises-f1-by-signing-mclarens-de-la-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hrt-surprises-f1-by-signing-mclarens-de-la-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"HRT surprises F1 by signing McLaren&#8217;s de la Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HRT has surprised the F1 world by announcing Pedro de la Rosa as one of its race drivers for the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Catalan returned to his regular role as McLaren&#8217;s long-time reserve driver this year after an abortive racing comeback in 2010 with Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>HRT, the back-of-the-grid Spanish team that this season was bought from Jose Ramon Carabante by Thesen Capital, said de la Rosa will be racing not only in 2012 but also 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The team said his signing is a &#8220;fundamental pillar&#8221; in HRT&#8217;s &#8220;renewed project&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank (McLaren boss) Martin (Whitmarsh) for giving me the opportunity to follow my heart,&#8221; said de la Rosa.\u00a0 &#8220;Without them (McLaren) I wouldn&#8217;t be here today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRT has surprised the F1 world by announcing Pedro de la Rosa as one of its race drivers for the 2012 season. The 40-year-old Catalan returned to his regular role as McLaren&#8217;s long-time reserve driver this year after an abortive racing comeback in 2010 with Sauber. HRT, the back-of-the-grid Spanish team that this season was &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,842,695,271,3389],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340"}],"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=14340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14341,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340\/revisions\/14341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}