{"id":15359,"date":"2012-02-29T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15359"},"modified":"2012-02-29T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:10:11","slug":"barrichello-to-announce-indycar-deal-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/barrichello-to-announce-indycar-deal-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrichello to announce Indycar deal on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rubens Barrichello will announce on Thursday he has agreed a deal to switch to Indycar racing in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>That is the claim of the well-connected O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper, reporting that the formula one veteran has secured $3 million in sponsorship backing to secure the seat.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that after 19 consecutive seasons in F1, Barrichello will drive for his close friend and countryman Tony Kanaan&#8217;s Indycar employer KV, owned by Jimmy Vasser.<\/p>\n<p>Estado said 39-year-old Barrichello&#8217;s sponsor, BMC Brasil Maquinas, offered $3.5 million in backing to Williams in 2012, but the British team accepted the more lucrative sponsorship brought by Barrichello&#8217;s fellow Brazilian Bruno Senna.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubens Barrichello will announce on Thursday he has agreed a deal to switch to Indycar racing in 2012. That is the claim of the well-connected O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper, reporting that the formula one veteran has secured $3 million in sponsorship backing to secure the seat. The report said that after 19 consecutive seasons &#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":[2120,3,16],"tags":[3639,5262,5340,3355,352,1929,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359"}],"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=15359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15360,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359\/revisions\/15360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}