{"id":2630,"date":"2010-02-23T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2010-02-23T07:16:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:16:01","slug":"petrov-insists-hes-not-number-two-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/petrov-insists-hes-not-number-two-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrov insists he&#8217;s not &#8216;number two&#8217; driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Vitaly Petrov insists he has not been signed by Renault to be &#8220;number two&#8221; driver in deference to Robert Kubica.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Russian rookie is taking a reported EUR15 million to the Enstone based team.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The races have not yet begun, so maybe he (Kubica) will be the number two,&#8221; Petrov, 25, told the state owned Russian news agency RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>He also said he is not expecting to be given an easy time by his highly rated Polish teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every driver is responsible for himself,&#8221; 2009 GP2 runner-up Petrov explained.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Petrov must contractually achieve at least 25 per cent of Kubica&#8217;s points tally in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He is also yet to obtain the entire EUR15m promised to Renault.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian daily sports newspaper Sovetsky Sport says a petition signed by some of Petrov&#8217;s athlete colleagues has been sent to Russian president Vladimir Putin, in the hope of getting help to raise the missing EUR7.5m.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Petrov insists he has not been signed by Renault to be &#8220;number two&#8221; driver in deference to Robert Kubica. \u00a0 The Russian rookie is taking a reported EUR15 million to the Enstone based 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":[5262,55,96,415],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630"}],"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=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}