{"id":2497,"date":"2010-02-17T07:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2010-02-17T07:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T12:17:05","slug":"chandhok-signs-deal-with-stefan-gp-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/chandhok-signs-deal-with-stefan-gp-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandhok signs deal with Stefan GP &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Stefan GP is reported to have signed a driver to complete its 2010 lineup.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although without an official entry to race this season, the Serbian outfit is believed to have already signed the Toyota-backed former Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At least one of the Cologne-designed Stefan cars has been painted Serbian national red ahead of its track debut, which according to rumours could now take place at the Barcelona group test next week.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland&#8217;s Motorsport Aktuell reports that 26-year-old Indian GP2 driver Karun Chandhok, with $6 million of sponsorship in tow, may have been signed to be Nakajima&#8217;s teammate.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Chandhok&#8217;s GP2 contract, valid for 2010, contains an exit clause in the event that a formula one seat is available.<\/p>\n<p>His father is Vicky Chandhok, a high ranking Indian motor racing official, with links to F1&#8217;s governing body FIA.<\/p>\n<p>Indian media reports late last year said Chandhok Snr has &#8220;a strong relationship&#8221; with F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, as well as with &#8220;a host of top FIA officials&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan GP is reported to have signed a driver to complete its 2010 lineup. \u00a0 Although without an official entry to race this season, the Serbian outfit is believed to have already signed the Toyota-backed former Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima.<\/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":[5262,742,586,255],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}