{"id":20816,"date":"2014-01-27T07:03:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20816"},"modified":"2014-01-27T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:03:08","slug":"grosjean-future-safe-despite-boullier-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/grosjean-future-safe-despite-boullier-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosjean future safe despite Boullier exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Grosjean&#8217;s Lotus future is safe, despite the departure from the team of boss Eric Boullier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Romain-Grosjean-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Romain-Grosjean-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is the claim of team owner Genii&#8217;s chief Gerard Lopez, responding to claims that because Frenchman Boullier was famously close to his countryman Grosjean, the 27-year-old driver&#8217;s future might now be in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>But Lopez told France&#8217;s RMC that Grosjean is safe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is us who brought Romain from GP2, and his career was launched by Jean-Paul Driot, who is a friend and a partner,&#8221; said the Luxembourger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then the choice of the lineup for F1 was done with Eric Boullier, but it&#8217;s still us who decided,&#8221; added Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And Gravity is 100 per cent ours,&#8221; he insisted, referring to the management stable involving Grosjean, in which Boullier was heavily involved as the chief.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez insisted: &#8220;For me, Romain is one of the best drivers in F1 today, and I think we will soon be able to announce something for the very long term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Grosjean&#8217;s Lotus future is safe, despite the departure from the team of boss Eric Boullier. That is the claim of team owner Genii&#8217;s chief Gerard Lopez, responding to claims that because Frenchman Boullier was famously close to his countryman Grosjean, the 27-year-old driver&#8217;s future might now be in doubt. But Lopez told France&#8217;s RMC &#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":[251,5262,5340,58,306,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816"}],"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=20816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20817,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions\/20817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}