{"id":2590,"date":"2010-02-22T07:10:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T12:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2010-02-22T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T12:03:54","slug":"soucekvirgin-deal-to-be-confirmed-soon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/soucekvirgin-deal-to-be-confirmed-soon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Soucek\/Virgin deal to be confirmed soon &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Confirmation that Andy Soucek will be Virgin&#8217;s reserve driver in 2010 is expected within days.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We reported last week that the 24-year-old Spaniard, who is the reigning F2 champion, is set to sign with the new British team because confirmed reserve driver Alvaro Parente&#8217;s sponsorship has fallen through.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spanish radio Cadena SER now reports that talks about a race seat with Campos and USF1 were also held, and that Soucek also had &#8220;three very attractive proposals&#8221; to be reserve driver.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Soucek was courted by Sauber and McLaren, and had even scheduled a forthcoming visit to the latter team&#8217;s Woking headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old, who also has Austrian citizenship, ultimately decided to sign with Virgin because it was the best overall contract, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a few days (the deal) will be official; surely by the end of the week at (the) Montmelo (Barcelona test),&#8221; said Cadena SER.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmation that Andy Soucek will be Virgin&#8217;s reserve driver in 2010 is expected within days. \u00a0 We reported last week that the 24-year-old Spaniard, who is the reigning F2 champion, is set to sign with the new British team because confirmed reserve driver Alvaro Parente&#8217;s sponsorship has fallen through.<\/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":[767,383,5262,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"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=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}