{"id":2939,"date":"2010-03-05T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2010-03-05T06:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T11:53:00","slug":"kovalainen-managing-his-own-f1-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kovalainen-managing-his-own-f1-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovalainen managing his own F1 career"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">When the FIA initially banned drivers from being managed by crashgate conspirator Flavio Briatore, Heikki Kovalainen elected not to replace the flamboyant Italian.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat reveals that the 28-year-old negotiated his own contract when he signed to switch from McLaren to the new Lotus team for 2010.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I decided to do all the negotiations myself,&#8221; said the Finn.\u00a0 &#8220;For me it&#8217;s very important to know exactly what you are signing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know what to do and it gives me peace of mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said there had been talks with Toyota and Force India when it became clear that McLaren were not retaining Kovalainen for 2010.<\/p>\n<p>But he also phoned Mike Gascoyne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked him what is the situation with Lotus and told him I would be interested to hear about the project,&#8221; said Kovalainen.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that he is &#8220;quite satisfied&#8221; with the contract he negotiated, revealing that both he and Jarno Trulli receive a salary.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the FIA initially banned drivers from being managed by crashgate conspirator Flavio Briatore, Heikki Kovalainen elected not to replace the flamboyant Italian. \u00a0 Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat reveals that the 28-year-old negotiated his own contract when he signed to switch from McLaren to the new Lotus team for 2010.<\/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":[5262,252,517],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939"}],"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=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}