{"id":14915,"date":"2012-01-13T07:07:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14915"},"modified":"2012-01-13T07:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T12:07:26","slug":"chandhok-to-be-paid-in-2012-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/chandhok-to-be-paid-in-2012-for-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandhok to be paid in 2012 &#8216;for a change&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2012 will be a novel season for Karun Chandhok as the Indian prepares to collect a pay-packet.<\/p>\n<p>After two seasons of paying to race with HRT (2010) and serving as Team Lotus&#8217; reserve driver (2011), the 27-year-old will actually be paid as he contests FIA endurance sports car races with the JRM team this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a change, I will get money directly from my team,&#8221; he confirmed to the Calcutta Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In F1, the money came only from endorsements and not from the team.\u00a0 So it will be nice to race and get paid for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chandhok said he decided to look outside of F1 for 2012 when it became clear he would not find a race seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time in my career, there was no catch to any of the negotiations,&#8221; he said according to the Hindustan Times.<\/p>\n<p>Chandhok said he is still open to splitting his time in 2012 between his new racing foray and a Friday role in formula one, as only one scheduled date clashes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m yet to get into talks with F1 teams,&#8221; he is quoted by the Times of India.\u00a0 &#8220;Now that things are decided I can look at F1 testing options too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 will be a novel season for Karun Chandhok as the Indian prepares to collect a pay-packet. After two seasons of paying to race with HRT (2010) and serving as Team Lotus&#8217; reserve driver (2011), the 27-year-old will actually be paid as he contests FIA endurance sports car races with the JRM team this year. &#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":[5262,5300,5340,3541,742],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915"}],"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=14915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14916,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions\/14916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}