{"id":16833,"date":"2012-10-12T07:34:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16833"},"modified":"2012-10-12T07:34:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:34:39","slug":"petrov-says-f1-career-not-definitely-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/petrov-says-f1-career-not-definitely-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrov says F1 career not definitely over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Petrov has hit back at reports he will definitely slide out of formula one at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Vitaly-Petrov-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vitaly-Petrov-1\" width=\"384\" height=\"257\" \/>Previously boosted by his Russian supporters, Petrov&#8217;s manager Oksana Kosachenko suggested recently that she was looking at alternative projects for 2013 because the 28-year-old driver&#8217;s financial backing had dried up.<\/p>\n<p>But Petrov has suggested in Korea that Kosachenko was simply laying out their strategy to stay in formula one next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We decided to talk about it now, not at the end of the year or at the last race,&#8221; the Caterham and former Renault driver is quoted by Germany&#8217;s motorsport-magazin.com.<\/p>\n<p>Petrov said it is a different situation for other so-called pay-drivers &#8220;such as (those) from Mexico and Spain&#8221;, who are able to &#8220;choose the team&#8221; they drive for.<\/p>\n<p>He said staying at Caterham in 2013 remains a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want to keep us here, my management and the team are still in negotiations on the contract for next year, so everything is still open,&#8221; said Petrov.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Petrov has hit back at reports he will definitely slide out of formula one at the end of the season. Previously boosted by his Russian supporters, Petrov&#8217;s manager Oksana Kosachenko suggested recently that she was looking at alternative projects for 2013 because the 28-year-old driver&#8217;s financial backing had dried up. But Petrov has suggested &#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":[3021,5262,5340,2319,415],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833"}],"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=16833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16834,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833\/revisions\/16834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}