{"id":19602,"date":"2013-10-16T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19602"},"modified":"2013-10-16T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:00:49","slug":"lotus-to-have-hulkenberg-and-budget-boost-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-to-have-hulkenberg-and-budget-boost-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus to have Hulkenberg and budget boost for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lotus contract with Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s name on it will be signed at Enstone &#8220;either today or tomorrow&#8221;, the German newspaper Bild reports.<\/p>\n<p>It was said that the team was poised to sign the 26-year-old German as soon as the deal with Quantum &#8211; formerly Infinity, a group of private investors who plan to buy 35 per cent of Lotus &#8211; is done.<\/p>\n<p>If not, it could have opened the door to Pastor Maldonado.<\/p>\n<p>Maldonado&#8217;s lucrative sponsor PDVSA is locked in a contract with Williams, but O Estado de S.Paulo correspondent Livio Oricchio said the Venezuelan is desperate to move from uncompetitive Williams.<\/p>\n<p>But Bild reports that Lotus&#8217; Quantum deal is finally now being formalised, which should boost the team&#8217;s budget beyond EUR 200 million for 2014.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lotus contract with Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s name on it will be signed at Enstone &#8220;either today or tomorrow&#8221;, the German newspaper Bild reports. It was said that the team was poised to sign the 26-year-old German as soon as the deal with Quantum &#8211; formerly Infinity, a group of private investors who plan to buy &#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":[5262,5340,306,4686,448],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602"}],"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=19602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19603,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602\/revisions\/19603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}