{"id":4443,"date":"2010-04-15T06:58:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2010-04-15T06:58:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:58:33","slug":"grosjean-eyes-return-to-f1-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/grosjean-eyes-return-to-f1-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosjean eyes return to F1 in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Romain Grosjean insists he does not want to close the chapter on his brief formula one career.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The almost 24-year-old Swiss-Frenchman took over from the sacked Nelson Piquet last year, driving the R29 at the final seven rounds as the &#8216;crashgate&#8217; scandal struck and Renault lost chiefs, sponsors and the support of its carmaker parent.<\/p>\n<p>Over the winter, the Enstone based team changed hands and the new regime signed the well-financed Russian pay-driver Vitaly Petrov, leaving Grosjean to contemplate a season in the new GT1 world championship.<\/p>\n<p>That category kicks off in Abu Dhabi this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to it, taking this experience and maybe trying to go back to formula one in 2011,&#8221; he told the local Gulf News&#8217; Xpress on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is proud of his achievements in F1, even though failing to score a single point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was very close to Fernando, and Fernando is winning races today with a very good car,&#8221; said Grosjean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was at the wrong place at the wrong moment, sometimes that happens.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I think I clearly have my place in formula one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he told the Abu Dhabi newspaper The National: &#8220;(Renault) was in a very complicated situation and I don&#8217;t like to go back too much to that story, but in the end I am very happy with the job I did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romain Grosjean insists he does not want to close the chapter on his brief formula one career.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443"}],"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=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}