{"id":1987,"date":"2010-02-01T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2010-02-01T06:31:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:31:05","slug":"kobayashi-also-courted-by-renault-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kobayashi-also-courted-by-renault-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobayashi also courted by Renault for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kamui Kobayashi on Sunday coyly revealed earlier talks about the 2010 season with Renault.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese rookie made a spectacular two-race debut with the departing Toyota team at the tail-end of 2009, and was subsequently signed up by Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>But as he also carries some personal sponsorship, rumours abounded that the 23-year-old was courted by several teams.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When asked at the launch of the C29 at Valencia whether he had other options for 2010, he was quoted by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport as responding: &#8220;I had them, but do I have to mention the names?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When his manager anxiously waved in the background, the 2009 GP2 driver smiled: &#8220;I would be happy to be open with you, but as you can see, I am not allowed to speak!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that Renault, which ultimately signed the Russian pay-driver Vitaly Petrov, was one of Kobayashi&#8217;s options.<\/p>\n<p>Auto Motor und Sport said he will now relocate from Paris, where he lived in order to be close to his GP2 employer DAMS, to Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamui Kobayashi on Sunday coyly revealed earlier talks about the 2010 season with Renault. \u00a0 The Japanese rookie made a spectacular two-race debut with the departing Toyota team at the tail-end of 2009, and was subsequently signed up by Sauber. But as he also carries some personal sponsorship, rumours abounded that the 23-year-old was courted &#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":[559,5262,97,55,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987"}],"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=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}