{"id":14384,"date":"2011-11-25T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14384"},"modified":"2011-11-25T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T12:05:07","slug":"manager-slams-renault-claim-kubica-not-ready-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/manager-slams-renault-claim-kubica-not-ready-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager slams Renault claim Kubica not ready for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kubica&#8217;s manager has angrily denied Renault&#8217;s claim that the Pole ruled himself out of F1 for the start of the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>In a media statement on Wednesday, the team said Kubica has confirmed &#8220;it is still too early for him to commit to driving in the 2012 championship&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came to the conclusion that I am not yet certain to be ready for the 2012 season,&#8221; the 26-year-old driver was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Reuters, Kubica&#8217;s manager Daniele Morelli on Thursday accused Renault of twisting the driver&#8217;s words.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not true that he won&#8217;t be ready for 2012, he said he was not certain to be fit for the first tests in February,&#8221; he reportedly told La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Morelli clarified that Kubica&#8217;s Renault contract runs out at the end of next month and also denied the statement&#8217;s claim that talks about 2013 have begun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Renault will take their decision regarding drivers, we will look for alternative solutions,&#8221; he said, following media speculation Kubica is being targeted by the Ferrari and Red Bull teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From January 1 we will be free to go in whichever direction,&#8221; added Morelli.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kubica&#8217;s manager has angrily denied Renault&#8217;s claim that the Pole ruled himself out of F1 for the start of the 2012 season. In a media statement on Wednesday, the team said Kubica has confirmed &#8220;it is still too early for him to commit to driving in the 2012 championship&#8221;. &#8220;I came to the conclusion &#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":[1753,5262,5340,55,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384"}],"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=14384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14385,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384\/revisions\/14385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}