{"id":14837,"date":"2012-01-08T13:31:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14837"},"modified":"2012-01-08T13:31:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:31:21","slug":"alguersuari-rules-out-hrt-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alguersuari-rules-out-hrt-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Alguersuari rules out HRT for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaime Alguersuari has &#8220;definitely ruled out&#8221; contemplating a switch to the HRT team for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of only his second full season on the grid, the 21-year-old Spaniard has been dropped by rookie team Toro Rosso and overlooked for Red Bull&#8217;s reserve role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2010\/f1-10-drivers\/Jaime-Alguersuari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Struggling HRT was earmarked by the media as one option for Alguersuari, given the efforts by the team&#8217;s new management to adopt a more all-Spanish image.<\/p>\n<p>But new boss Luis Perez Sala, whilst admitting that Alguersuari would be an attractive signing, also acknowledged that a driver with crucial sponsorship will be a more likely teammate for Pedro de la Rosa this year.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the sports daily AS believes Alguersuari has &#8220;definitely ruled out&#8221; HRT because he considers it &#8220;a backwards step for his career&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jaime still has options to be third driver in one of the top teams,&#8221; said the newspaper, naming McLaren and Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaime Alguersuari has &#8220;definitely ruled out&#8221; contemplating a switch to the HRT team for 2012. At the end of only his second full season on the grid, the 21-year-old Spaniard has been dropped by rookie team Toro Rosso and overlooked for Red Bull&#8217;s reserve role. Struggling HRT was earmarked by the media as one option &#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":[5262,5340,842,382,3195,271],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837"}],"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=14837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14839,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions\/14839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}