{"id":20904,"date":"2014-02-05T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20904"},"modified":"2014-02-05T07:11:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:11:09","slug":"lotus-owner-says-whitmarsh-not-the-only-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-owner-says-whitmarsh-not-the-only-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus owner says Whitmarsh &#8216;not the only candidate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez has played down reports McLaren refugee Martin Whitmarsh is definitely headed to Enstone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Gerard-Lopez-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Gerard-Lopez-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>With Eric Boullier having moved to McLaren to be &#8216;racing director&#8217;, it was reported that Briton Whitmarsh was the obvious choice to replace the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There have been contacts with Martin,&#8221; Lopez is quoted by Italy&#8217;s blogf1.it, &#8220;but he is not necessarily the only one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have talked to at least three other people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report said the Whitmarsh deal could fall over on the issue of his salary, given recent staff cuts at the financially-troubled team.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, after Lopez said recently Lotus has a new sponsor in the form of Russia&#8217;s Yotaphone, it emerges that the parent company has in fact bought a stake in the Enstone based team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a mere sponsorship, we have acquired an equity stake,&#8221; the spokesman for Yota Devices is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez has played down reports McLaren refugee Martin Whitmarsh is definitely headed to Enstone. With Eric Boullier having moved to McLaren to be &#8216;racing director&#8217;, it was reported that Briton Whitmarsh was the obvious choice to replace the Frenchman. &#8220;There have been contacts with Martin,&#8221; Lopez is quoted by Italy&#8217;s blogf1.it, &#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":[251,5262,5340,58,306,491],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904"}],"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=20904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20905,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904\/revisions\/20905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}