{"id":14664,"date":"2011-12-20T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14664"},"modified":"2011-12-20T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:41:10","slug":"chandhok-admits-test-seat-likely-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/chandhok-admits-test-seat-likely-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandhok admits test seat likely for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karun Chandhok on Tuesday acknowledged he will likely have to settle for another season as a test driver.<\/p>\n<p>In the role this year, the Indian made a one-off appearance in Jarno Trulli&#8217;s Team Lotus car at the Nurburgring and was hoping for a regular seat in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>But he is quoted by the Press Trust of India: &#8220;I am mentally preparing myself to continue as a test driver for another season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of now, most of the teams have announced their drivers for the 2012 season.\u00a0 There are only two slots up for grabs &#8212; one with Williams and other with HRT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So the situation is a bit difficult but I am ready to work hard,&#8221; added Chandhok, who is tipped to stay with Lotus as the team becomes Caterham in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted it is a &#8220;tough situation&#8221; to be competing on the market with other potential race drivers who can offer &#8220;good sponsorship money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karun Chandhok on Tuesday acknowledged he will likely have to settle for another season as a test driver. In the role this year, the Indian made a one-off appearance in Jarno Trulli&#8217;s Team Lotus car at the Nurburgring and was hoping for a regular seat in 2012. But he is quoted by the Press Trust &#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":[2241,3021,5262,5340,742],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664"}],"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=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14665,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions\/14665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}