{"id":3366,"date":"2010-03-17T06:59:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T10:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2010-03-17T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T10:52:35","slug":"petrobras-set-for-f1-return-with-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/petrobras-set-for-f1-return-with-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrobras set for F1 return with Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to Brazilian media reports, Lotus is close to securing a sponsorship deal with Petrobras.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of the reports said a deal between the new Malaysian-backed team and the semi-public Brazilian oil company has been done.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But UOL Esporte quoted a Petrobras official, whose employer was last involved in formula one with Williams, as clarifying that a contract is still &#8220;under consideration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that the talks will be completed by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>O Globo said the branding of Petrobras, which had agreed to sponsor Honda in 2009 before the Brawn takeover, will be added to Lotus&#8217; green T127 at the Spanish grand prix in May.<\/p>\n<p>That report said the value of the deal is about $9 million, with an official admitting that some talks with other teams have also taken place.<\/p>\n<p>Another source said the value of the Lotus deal is closer to $5m.<\/p>\n<p>Petrobras&#8217; technical boss Rogerio Goncalves told UOL Esporte that even if a deal is made, the company would not have enough development time to supply fuel in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217; Petrobras deal ran between 1998 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Brazilian media reports, Lotus is close to securing a sponsorship deal with Petrobras. \u00a0 Some of the reports said a deal between the new Malaysian-backed team and the semi-public Brazilian oil company has been done.<\/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":[5262,912,976],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366"}],"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=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}