{"id":19520,"date":"2013-10-09T06:59:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T10:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19520"},"modified":"2013-10-09T06:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T10:59:48","slug":"force-india-not-ruling-out-magnussen-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/force-india-not-ruling-out-magnussen-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Force India not ruling out Magnussen for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Force India has not ruled out signing Kevin Magnussen for 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Vijay-Mallya-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Vijay-Mallya-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The young Dane, whose father Jan contested a race for McLaren in 1995, is being backed by the great British team as he closes on the Formula Renault 3.5 title.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport recently made the link between Magnussen and Force India, revealing that a debt owed by the Silverstone based team to McLaren could be forgiven if the 21-year-old is given his grand prix debut.<\/p>\n<p>The rumour would tie in with speculation Force India is considering a new teammate for Adrian Sutil next year, because Paul di Resta is under-performing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a competitive pairing at the moment,&#8221; insists team boss Vijay Mallya, &#8220;but it&#8217;s unlikely we will make any decisions (about 2014) before the Indian grand prix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked specifically about Magnussen by Reuters, deputy boss Bob Fernley answered: &#8220;Vijay has always taken the best drivers that he could afford.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll change that philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So when it comes to actually determining the drivers, we can put our recommendations in.\u00a0 And if Kevin is in that mix then so be it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>But Fernley also said: &#8220;I think McLaren have to look at it themselves really.\u00a0 If Magnussen is a wonderful driver, why not take the chance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Force India has not ruled out signing Kevin Magnussen for 2014. The young Dane, whose father Jan contested a race for McLaren in 1995, is being backed by the great British team as he closes on the Formula Renault 3.5 title. Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport recently made the link between Magnussen and Force India, &#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":[3171,5262,576,5340,3596,292],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520"}],"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=19520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19521,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions\/19521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}