{"id":14473,"date":"2011-12-01T07:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T12:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14473"},"modified":"2011-12-01T07:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T12:05:32","slug":"female-driver-de-villota-close-to-2012-renault-lotus-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/female-driver-de-villota-close-to-2012-renault-lotus-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Female driver de Villota close to 2012 Renault-Lotus deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female Spanish driver Maria de Villota has revealed she is close to signing a contract to become third driver for the Renault\/Lotus team in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At an event on Wednesday, the 31-year-old was quoted as saying she expected to put pen to paper &#8220;later this year or early next year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She said the role is to be the &#8220;Friday or the replacement driver&#8221; at grands prix, acknowledging that her work will be &#8220;focused towards 2013&#8221;, when she hopes to &#8220;be on the grid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have all the pieces, all that remains is to fit them together during a day for some simple negotiating points,&#8221; de Villota is quoted by Europa Press.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;There are many women who can drive well and so it is important to try to open the way for others to see that it is not something so unusual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De Villota, whose father Emilio de Villota raced in F1 in the 70s and 80s, was a team guest at Interlagos last weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Spanish driver Maria de Villota has revealed she is close to signing a contract to become third driver for the Renault\/Lotus team in 2012. At an event on Wednesday, the 31-year-old was quoted as saying she expected to put pen to paper &#8220;later this year or early next year&#8221;. She said the role 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":[5262,5340,535],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473"}],"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=14473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14474,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473\/revisions\/14474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}