{"id":2902,"date":"2010-03-04T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:31:12","slug":"usf1-denies-signing-lopezs-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/usf1-denies-signing-lopezs-teammate\/","title":{"rendered":"USF1 denies signing Lopez&#8217;s teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The failed American team USF1 has denied it had two drivers under contract to contest the 2010 season.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plight of the Argentine government-backed Jose Maria Lopez, and his subsequent extrication from the contract, is well known.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But it was also reported in recent days that the Briton James Rossiter, or perhaps the Serbian Milos Pavlovic, had signed to be Lopez&#8217;s teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had discussions with other drivers but did not have anyone (else) under contract,&#8221; USF1 team boss Ken Anderson told Germany&#8217;s motorsport-total.com.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson also revealed that, out of the Charlotte based team&#8217;s European headquarters in Spain, USF1 would have used motor homes purchased from Brawn GP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were the old motor homes of the Honda test team,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;They had only 1500 miles on them, because they drove only between Brackley and Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had painted them and they were ready.\u00a0 On the equipment side we have everything that you need,&#8221; added Anderson.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The failed American team USF1 has denied it had two drivers under contract to contest the 2010 season. \u00a0 The plight of the Argentine government-backed Jose Maria Lopez, and his subsequent extrication from the contract, is well known.<\/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":[5262,265,247,846,313],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902"}],"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=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}