{"id":14943,"date":"2012-01-17T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14943"},"modified":"2012-01-17T07:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:06:11","slug":"senna-signs-deal-to-complete-williams-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/senna-signs-deal-to-complete-williams-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Senna signs deal to complete Williams lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams is set to complete its 2012 race driver lineup after Bruno Senna signed a contract.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Autosprint cited &#8220;Brazilian sources&#8221; in reporting that the former HRT and Renault driver, whose famous uncle Ayrton Senna died at the wheel of a Williams in 1994, will replace Rubens Barrichello and become Pastor Maldonado&#8217;s new teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The commitment should be official within the coming days,&#8221; said the report.<\/p>\n<p>Autosprint said Senna has amassed an impressive EUR 14 million in major Brazilian sponsorship, including OGX, an oil giant headed by billionaire Eike Batista.<\/p>\n<p>The deal reportedly also includes team sponsorship by 28-year-old Senna&#8217;s sponsors Embratel and Gilette.<\/p>\n<p>Autosprint said Force India refugee Adrian Sutil had been in contention for the seat, but the reduction in value of his Medion sponsor backing &#8220;was crucial&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The unofficial news was also reported by the Brazilian Grande Premio website, who said Senna signed the contract in the UK on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams is set to complete its 2012 race driver lineup after Bruno Senna signed a contract. Italy&#8217;s Autosprint cited &#8220;Brazilian sources&#8221; in reporting that the former HRT and Renault driver, whose famous uncle Ayrton Senna died at the wheel of a Williams in 1994, will replace Rubens Barrichello and become Pastor Maldonado&#8217;s new teammate. &#8220;The &#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":[381,5262,5340,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14943"}],"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=14943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14944,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14943\/revisions\/14944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}