{"id":3686,"date":"2010-03-24T07:28:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2010-03-24T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:20:15","slug":"chandhok-says-indian-gp-not-funding-hrt-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/chandhok-says-indian-gp-not-funding-hrt-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandhok says Indian GP not funding HRT seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Karun Chandhok has denied claims the group behind next year&#8217;s inaugural Indian grand prix is also funding his 2010 seat with the HRT team.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone recently hailed this year&#8217;s debut of the Indian driver, he also pointed out that &#8220;we will have an Indian GP thanks to the Jaypee Group in 2011&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jaypee, an Indian industrial conglomerate, is constructing a Hermann Tilke-designed F1 circuit about 40km from the capital New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>But while Indian Chandhok, 26, secured his drive with the new Spanish team HRT with the help of $5m in sponsorship backing, he denied that the Jaypee Group is directly involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Jaypee Group had no influence in me securing a drive,&#8221; Chandhok, whose father is the Indian motor racing and FIA official Vicky, told Forbes India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My father and I know the people and are advising on various aspects of the (Indian GP) 2011 project but as regards to my drive there&#8217;s no link at the moment,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Chandhok also admitted his racing career was close to collapse at the end of 2006, before Ecclestone stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A week before the testing season, Bernie Ecclestone told me that me he had managed to come to a deal with (GP2 team) Durango which totally rescued my career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was a defining moment in my career, one I will always be indebted to them for,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karun Chandhok has denied claims the group behind next year&#8217;s inaugural Indian grand prix is also funding his 2010 seat with the HRT team. \u00a0 When F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone recently hailed this year&#8217;s debut of the Indian driver, he also pointed out that &#8220;we will have an Indian GP thanks to the Jaypee &#8230;<\/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":[59,5262,5261,842,742],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686"}],"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=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}