{"id":2039,"date":"2010-02-02T21:27:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2010-02-02T21:27:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:27:52","slug":"barrichello-reveals-2010-mclaren-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/barrichello-reveals-2010-mclaren-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrichello reveals 2010 McLaren talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rubens Barrichello has revealed he held talks with McLaren before signing with Williams for 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Woking based team ultimately signed the Brazilian&#8217;s 2009 Brawn teammate and reigning world champion Jenson Button to partner Lewis Hamilton this season.<\/p>\n<p>But Barrichello, 37, finished last year&#8217;s standings in third place, having outpaced Button with identical machinery in the second half of the year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They (McLaren) called me a couple of times in November at the Brazilian race, to see if I was available,&#8221; said Barrichello in Valencia, where on Tuesday he continued to test Williams&#8217; new FW32 car.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is sure he was not McLaren&#8217;s only alternative to Button.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they called me, I&#8217;m sure they called him (Button) at the same time.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure they were questioning as soon as (Kimi) Raikkonen dropped out of the case, and I&#8217;m sure they went on to ask more people, not just us,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubens Barrichello has revealed he held talks with McLaren before signing with Williams for 2010. \u00a0 The Woking based team ultimately signed the Brazilian&#8217;s 2009 Brawn teammate and reigning world champion Jenson Button to partner Lewis Hamilton this season. But Barrichello, 37, finished last year&#8217;s standings in third place, having outpaced Button with identical machinery &#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":[5262,5284,352,155],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"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=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}