{"id":1965,"date":"2010-01-31T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2010-01-31T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:31:10","slug":"renault-confirm-petrov-launch-r30-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-confirm-petrov-launch-r30-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault confirm Petrov, launch R30 in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Renault on Sunday presented Vitaly Petrov, Russia&#8217;s first formula one driver, as the occupant of its second race seat for the 2010 season.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old, who finished the GP2 championship in second place last year and who reportedly has a big sponsorship purse, helped his new teammate Robert Kubica pull the wraps off the R30 car in the Valencia pitlane.<\/p>\n<p>The single seater is painted all yellow and black, almost identical to the 30th anniversary tribute that was revealed a couple of years ago, but with red wing endplates coloured red in deference to prominent sponsor Total.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It reminds me of when I was a kid, watching Arnoux, Prost.\u00a0 It also sends out a clear message about Renault&#8217;s commitment to formula one,&#8221; said Eric Boullier, team principal of the newly Genii Capital-controlled team.<\/p>\n<p>The R30 also features a McLaren and Sauber-esque shark fin engine cover, but otherwise appears a fairly conventional evolution of last year&#8217;s R29.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as was predicted, Jerome d&#8217;Ambrosio and Ho-Ping Tung were unveiled as the team&#8217;s new non-race drivers for 2010, and former technical director and acting team boss Bob Bell is now managing director.<\/p>\n<p>James Allison, who while Bell was team boss acted as technical director, now takes up that role full time.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renault on Sunday presented Vitaly Petrov, Russia&#8217;s first formula one driver, as the occupant of its second race seat for the 2010 season. \u00a0 The 25-year-old, who finished the GP2 championship in second place last year and who reportedly has a big sponsorship purse, helped his new teammate Robert Kubica pull the wraps off 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":[3],"tags":[253,251,5262,127,561,562,275,560,501,96,558,415],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965"}],"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=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}