{"id":14539,"date":"2011-12-08T06:33:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14539"},"modified":"2011-12-08T06:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:33:40","slug":"grosjean-signs-deal-to-be-raikkonens-teammate-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/grosjean-signs-deal-to-be-raikkonens-teammate-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosjean signs deal to be Raikkonen&#8217;s teammate &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has decided to pair Kimi Raikkonen with new GP2 champion Romain Grosjean next year.<\/p>\n<p>That is the exclusive claim of the Italian news source Italiaracing, citing &#8220;more than reliable French sources&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no official announcement (yet) but the contract has been signed in recent days,&#8221; read the report.<\/p>\n<p>Frenchman Grosjean, who made his troubled F1 debut with the same team (then Renault) amid the &#8216;crashgate&#8217; scandal in 2009, is handled by Lotus&#8217; new owner Genii Capital&#8217;s management arm Gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the running for the seat were 2011 teammates Bruno Senna and Vitaly Petrov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Breaking the deadlock in favour of the Frenchman was not only his excellent performance in recent testing and his positive evolution as a driver in the last two years,&#8221; explained Italiaracing, &#8220;but also a range of commercial considerations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report tipped Senna to now return to the reserve role, with Vyborg-born Petrov possibly ousting German Timo Glock as the Virgin team adopts the name of its Russian supercar partner Marussia for 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has decided to pair Kimi Raikkonen with new GP2 champion Romain Grosjean next year. That is the exclusive claim of the Italian news source Italiaracing, citing &#8220;more than reliable French sources&#8221;. &#8220;There is no official announcement (yet) but the contract has been signed in recent days,&#8221; read the report. Frenchman Grosjean, who made his &#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":[5262,5340,127,152,3410,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539"}],"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=14539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14540,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14539\/revisions\/14540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}