{"id":17224,"date":"2012-11-27T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17224"},"modified":"2012-11-27T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T12:03:27","slug":"lotus-owner-lopez-has-desire-to-keep-grosjean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-owner-lopez-has-desire-to-keep-grosjean\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus owner Lopez has ‘desire’ to keep Grosjean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite looking safe to keep his seat for 2013, Lotus is making Romain Grosjean wait.<\/p>\n

\"Romain-Grosjean\"The team rates the Frenchman’s raw speed very highly, but he has had a tumultuous season.<\/p>\n

The final chapter was in Brazil, where he crashed both in qualifying and the race.<\/p>\n

“At the moment we are having a few days or a few weeks of consideration,” team boss Eric Boullier is quoted by RMC Sport.<\/p>\n

“This season, there were not terrible things and not great things.\u00a0 But we’re not going to bury the kid, he did three podiums.”<\/p>\n

And team owner Genii’s Gerard Lopez told Speed Week: “The chance that he races with us in 2013 is great.”<\/p>\n

Grosjean, 26, admitted in Brazil that after the ups and downs of his return to F1 this year, he is exhausted.<\/p>\n

“It is time to stop and take two months off,” he said.\u00a0 “I hope I’ll be there next year.”<\/p>\n

Lopez told L’Equipe: “Romain is one of the fastest drivers in F1.<\/p>\n

“He understands the car, he can get the most from it, but he has not done everything we asked of him, especially in terms of consistency.<\/p>\n

“But the kind of speed he has does not grow on trees.<\/p>\n

“The reason he is not yet confirmed for 2013 is because we have not yet had time to sit down and discuss it together with the engineers.\u00a0 Then we’ll see.<\/p>\n

“My desire is to see Romain in the car, but it depends more on him than me.”<\/p>\n

\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite looking safe to keep his seat for 2013, Lotus is making Romain Grosjean wait. The team rates the Frenchman’s raw speed very highly, but he has had a tumultuous season. The final chapter was in Brazil, where he crashed both in qualifying and the race. “At the moment we are having a few days …<\/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":[251,5262,5340,58,306,55,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224"}],"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=17224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17225,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions\/17225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}