{"id":3135,"date":"2010-03-13T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2010-03-13T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T16:04:07","slug":"hrt-denies-links-to-german-group-vw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hrt-denies-links-to-german-group-vw\/","title":{"rendered":"HRT denies links to German group, VW"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jose Ramon Carabante has denied persistent rumours that a German investment group, perhaps with links to Volkswagen, is involved with the new Spanish team HRT.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meta 1 failed to get even one sponsor and sold its shares to me.\u00a0 I have had no contact with a German investment group.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we are beginning to get money from Brazil, India and Murcia, which (Murcia) gives us 3 million (EUR) annually over the next three years,&#8221; the team owner is quoted as saying by the El Pais newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it was announced in Sao Paulo &#8211; with Bruno Senna&#8217;s mother Viviane Senna in attendance &#8211; that the Brazilian bank Banco Cruzeiro do Sul is sponsoring the driver and team in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>After the Campos-Meta 1 takeover, the team &#8211; renamed Hispania Racing Team (HRT) &#8211; failed to do any testing and is last on the Bahrain grid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first four races will be our tests,&#8221; said Carabante.\u00a0 &#8220;Where we will really begin is in Spain,&#8221; he added, referring to May&#8217;s Barcelona event.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Ramon Carabante has denied persistent rumours that a German investment group, perhaps with links to Volkswagen, is involved with the new Spanish team HRT. \u00a0 &#8220;Meta 1 failed to get even one sponsor and sold its shares to me.\u00a0 I have had no contact with a German investment group.<\/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":[5262,905,842,695,696],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135"}],"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=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}