{"id":2578,"date":"2010-02-22T06:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T11:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2010-02-22T06:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T11:38:59","slug":"grosjean-lost-seat-due-to-mid-season-mistake-petrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/grosjean-lost-seat-due-to-mid-season-mistake-petrov\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosjean lost seat due to mid-season mistake &#8211; Petrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Romain Grosjean should not have accepted Renault&#8217;s offer of a race seat mid last year, according to his successor.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, the Swiss-born Frenchman Grosjean was paired with Russia&#8217;s Vitaly Petrov at the Barwa Addax GP2 team.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But after the Hungarian GP in late July, Renault ousted Nelson Piquet Jr and replaced the Brazilian with reserve driver Grosjean.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, however, failed to shine in the R29 car alongside Fernando Alonso, and after the final seven races of the 2009 season was not retained for the forthcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Petrov is bringing a reputed EUR15 million in funding to the newly restructured Enstone based team in 2010, and it is believed that if he does not meet a March 1 payment date, he could lose the seat.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian 25-year-old insists it was Grosjean&#8217;s &#8220;mistake&#8221; that cost him the full-time Renault role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grosjean erred by landing in F1 in mid-season,&#8221; Petrov is quoted as saying by France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was much more to lose than to win, especially with a car in which Alonso did not do any good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A team asked me in mid-2009 (to race) and I refused, and my father supported me,&#8221; he revealed.\u00a0 &#8220;It is necessary to start with a whole season (ahead).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Grosjean should not have accepted Renault&#8217;s offer of a race seat mid last year, according to his successor. \u00a0 In 2009, the Swiss-born Frenchman Grosjean was paired with Russia&#8217;s Vitaly Petrov at the Barwa Addax GP2 team.<\/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":[5262,55,295,415],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578"}],"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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}