{"id":2935,"date":"2010-03-05T06:48:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T11:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2010-03-05T06:48:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T11:48:17","slug":"baguette-hopes-for-2010-debut-at-belgian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/baguette-hopes-for-2010-debut-at-belgian-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Baguette hopes for 2010 debut at Belgian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Like Jacques Villeneuve, another driver not giving up on racing in formula one this year is the Belgian Bertrand Baguette.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is the reigning World Series by Renault champion, who tested with both Renault and Sauber in December and was also linked with HRT&#8217;s earlier guise Campos.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But although F1&#8217;s 24-car grid for 2010 is complete, Baguette told the Brussels newspaper De Morgen that he remains hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am definitely coming to Bahrain to show myself to the team bosses,&#8221; said Baguette, who said recently he has links to potential personal sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am convinced that during the course of the year there are vacancies,&#8221; he added.\u00a0 &#8220;With my manager Rick Gorne I am working hard on having a sufficient budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ideally I want to start at the Belgian grand prix in April and then complete the season,&#8221; said Baguette.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully Belgian companies realise the impact my participation could have.\u00a0 F1 remains my priority although there are alternatives such as Indycars or Superleague Formula.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to keep fit so that I&#8217;m ready when an opportunity presents itself in F1,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Jacques Villeneuve, another driver not giving up on racing in formula one this year is the Belgian Bertrand Baguette. \u00a0 The 24-year-old is the reigning World Series by Renault champion, who tested with both Renault and Sauber in December and was also linked with HRT&#8217;s earlier guise Campos.<\/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":[115,5262],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935"}],"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=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}