{"id":1615,"date":"2010-01-20T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2010-01-20T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T12:24:12","slug":"nick-heidfeld-in-the-running-for-renault-seat-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/nick-heidfeld-in-the-running-for-renault-seat-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Heidfeld in the running for Renault seat &#8211; boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nick Heidfeld is a candidate to be Robert Kubica&#8217;s teammate in 2010, Renault team boss Eric Boullier has confirmed.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New teams USF1 and Campos aside, the only established team with a vacant seat for next season is the newly Genii Capital-controlled outfit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Boullier told the German website motorsport-total.com that &#8220;several drivers&#8221; are in the running, including two with experience and two rookies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The nationality is completely open.\u00a0 Our second driver could be a Frenchman, but also he could be Russian, Chinese, German or Austrian,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely he is referring to Vitaly Petrov (Russian), Ho-Pin Tung (Chinese), Heidfeld (German) and Christian Klien (Austrian).<\/p>\n<p>Asked specifically whether 32-year-old Heidfeld is on the list, Boullier answered: &#8220;It would be a lie to say no.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a long time however he has been Robert&#8217;s teammate.\u00a0 The question is whether we want to have the pair together again.\u00a0 But he is on our list,&#8221; the Frenchman added.<\/p>\n<p>He also indicated that drivers with sponsorship funds could be persuasive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, we need to return to stability and ethics.\u00a0 Secondly, we need sponsors.\u00a0 We are waiting until we have these elements and then we will make our (driver) decision,&#8221; said Boullier.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld is a candidate to be Robert Kubica&#8217;s teammate in 2010, Renault team boss Eric Boullier has confirmed. \u00a0 New teams USF1 and Campos aside, the only established team with a vacant seat for next season is the newly Genii Capital-controlled outfit.<\/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":[273,251,5262,127,113,98,55,415],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615"}],"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=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}