{"id":14941,"date":"2012-01-17T07:04:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14941"},"modified":"2012-01-17T07:04:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:04:28","slug":"petrov-in-talks-for-caterham-third-driver-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/petrov-in-talks-for-caterham-third-driver-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrov in talks for Caterham third driver role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Petrov is in talks about becoming Caterham&#8217;s third and reserve driver in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat newspaper reports that the Russian&#8217;s manager, Oksana Kosachenko, visited the former Team Lotus outfit&#8217;s Hingham (UK) headquarters last week.<\/p>\n<p>27-year-old Petrov has been dropped by Renault (now Lotus) after his first two seasons in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>It has been rumoured that the race seat alongside Heikki Kovalainen at Caterham might be up for grabs for 2012, but Turun Sanomat said it is now likely that Jarno Trulli&#8217;s contract will be honoured.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Petrov would be the third driver in 2012 before coming into consideration for a race seat next season.<\/p>\n<p>Caterham&#8217;s third driver in 2011 was Indian Karun Chandhok, who is now looking for a similar role elsewhere to split his time between F1 and the FIA&#8217;s new world endurance sports car championship this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Petrov is in talks about becoming Caterham&#8217;s third and reserve driver in 2012. Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat newspaper reports that the Russian&#8217;s manager, Oksana Kosachenko, visited the former Team Lotus outfit&#8217;s Hingham (UK) headquarters last week. 27-year-old Petrov has been dropped by Renault (now Lotus) after his first two seasons in the sport. It has &#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":[3021,5262,5340,415],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941"}],"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=14941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14942,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\/revisions\/14942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}