{"id":1724,"date":"2010-01-23T21:24:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2010-01-23T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:24:25","slug":"boss-worried-rossi-to-make-f1-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/boss-worried-rossi-to-make-f1-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Boss &#8216;worried&#8217; Rossi to make F1 switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The boss of Valentino Rossi&#8217;s MotoGP team is worried the charismatic Italian will be lured to formula one by Ferrari.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amid rumours the 30-year-old has received an offer for the 2011 season from arch rivals Ducati, Yamaha team manager Davide Brivio said: &#8220;The greatest danger is Ferrari.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rossi tested a two-year-old F2008 at the Circuit de Catalunya this week, ostensibly as a reward for his latest title on two wheels.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But the Italian posted impressive times, amid rumours Ferrari would gladly give Rossi a formula one drive if only the rules were changed to accommodate third cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to be worried about these excellent (lap) times because Valentino really could get the desire to change sport,&#8221; Brivio told La Gazzetta dello Sport on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rossi has played down the latest rumours, but the Italian sports daily pointed out that he hinted at an F1 switch in a recent interview with the international motorcycle federation&#8217;s magazine.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, he indicated that Barcelona was chosen for his latest F1 test &#8220;to make a clear comparison&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll decide my future in a few months: I&#8217;ve also had an offer from Ducati. It&#8217;ll all be clear in a few months,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boss of Valentino Rossi&#8217;s MotoGP team is worried the charismatic Italian will be lured to formula one by Ferrari. \u00a0 Amid rumours the 30-year-old has received an offer for the 2011 season from arch rivals Ducati, Yamaha team manager Davide Brivio said: &#8220;The greatest danger is Ferrari.&#8221; Rossi tested a two-year-old F2008 at 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":[53,3],"tags":[466,346,5262,93,444,445],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"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=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}