{"id":3328,"date":"2010-03-16T07:37:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2010-03-16T07:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:30:02","slug":"lopez-ponders-whether-cheated-by-failed-usf1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lopez-ponders-whether-cheated-by-failed-usf1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lopez ponders whether &#8216;cheated&#8217; by failed USF1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A disappointed Jose Maria Lopez has not ruled out mounting a new formula one foray in the future.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed &#8216;Pechito&#8217;, the 26-year-old Argentine rookie had signed for this season with the now failed American outfit USF1.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He spoke on Monday with domestic press at the Argentine automobile club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had trust in the (USF1) people and I am responsible for myself, so I am not going to think about whether they cheated us or not,&#8221; said Lopez, who paid a more than $800,000 advance payment to the Charlotte based entry.<\/p>\n<p>But he said his managers and advisers, and also Bernie Ecclestone and the FIA, similarly had faith in USF1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each of us trusted what they were doing, then there were things that they said to us that we realised was not quite the way it was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I came to Charlotte I saw some things that were not told to us, but I still had confidence,&#8221; Lopez added.<\/p>\n<p>He has already resumed testing to return to domestic racing series in Argentina, but is also keen to keep an eye on new opportunities in F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we do something, it will be with a project with a future, which can guarantee that it is serious.\u00a0 We are ready to put together a new project,&#8221; said Lopez.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disappointed Jose Maria Lopez has not ruled out mounting a new formula one foray in the future. \u00a0 Nicknamed &#8216;Pechito&#8217;, the 26-year-old Argentine rookie had signed for this season with the now failed American outfit USF1.<\/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":[59,5262,5300,264,313],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328"}],"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=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}