{"id":14852,"date":"2012-01-09T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14852"},"modified":"2012-01-09T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:08:08","slug":"sponsor-says-senna-to-race-williams-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sponsor-says-senna-to-race-williams-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor says Senna to race Williams in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Senna&#8217;s chances of staying on the formula one grid in 2012 remain more than alive.<\/p>\n<p>That is the claim of one of the Brazilian&#8217;s powerful sponsors, who mid last season helped Senna to take over Nick Heidfeld&#8217;s race seat at Renault\/Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>Just after the 28-year-old joined the team and the sponsor deal with oil company OGX was announced, a spokesman for Senna confirmed the driver&#8217;s links with the holding company EBX.<\/p>\n<p>At the helm is multi billionaire Eike Batista, who according to Forbes is Brazil&#8217;s richest man.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the weekend, Senna insisted he is &#8220;still battling for a place in F1&#8221; this year, having not been &#8220;confirmed with any team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But when contemplating Senna&#8217;s next move, the O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper quoted Batista as saying: &#8220;Simple &#8212; he will race for Williams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Senna&#8217;s chances of staying on the formula one grid in 2012 remain more than alive. That is the claim of one of the Brazilian&#8217;s powerful sponsors, who mid last season helped Senna to take over Nick Heidfeld&#8217;s race seat at Renault\/Lotus. Just after the 28-year-old joined the team and the sponsor deal with oil &#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":[381,3281,3523,5262,5340,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852"}],"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=14852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14853,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852\/revisions\/14853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}