{"id":2622,"date":"2010-02-23T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2010-02-23T07:07:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:07:29","slug":"no-regrets-as-klien-settles-for-le-mans-reserve-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-regrets-as-klien-settles-for-le-mans-reserve-role\/","title":{"rendered":"No regrets as Klien settles for Le Mans reserve role"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Christian Klien struggled to smile on Monday, as he was presented as Peugeot&#8217;s Le Mans reserve driver for 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian had held off signing a race deal with the French carmaker because he was hoping to this year end his stint as a formula one reserve driver.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Signing for Le Mans would have made him unavailable for June&#8217;s Canadian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>But when race seat opportunities with Sauber, Renault, USF1 and Campos were all exhausted, all that was left at Peugeot for Klien was the reserve role.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he regretted gambling his 2010 season on F1, he is quoted as saying by Speed Week: &#8220;No, the chances (of a seat) were greater than ever, with the new teams and the many driver changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very close with Sauber and Renault, but it was not meant to be.\u00a0 Under the circumstances, I would do it the same way again,&#8221; said Klien.<\/p>\n<p>Also missing from the Montreal paddock in June will be the BBC radio commentator Anthony Davidson, who has signed to race at Le Mans with Peugeot.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Klien struggled to smile on Monday, as he was presented as Peugeot&#8217;s Le Mans reserve driver for 2010. \u00a0 The Austrian had held off signing a race deal with the French carmaker because he was hoping to this year end his stint as a formula one reserve driver.<\/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":[273,5262,137,171],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622"}],"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=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}