{"id":4724,"date":"2010-04-22T07:04:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T11:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2010-04-22T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T11:04:44","slug":"now-motogp-sponsor-wants-f1-switch-for-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/now-motogp-sponsor-wants-f1-switch-for-rossi\/","title":{"rendered":"Now MotoGP sponsor wants F1 switch for Rossi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The boss of the Italian carmaker Fiat has backed calls for Valentino Rossi to switch to formula one in 2011.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo this week said he wants F1&#8217;s rules to be changed so that the Italian team can enter a third car for the multiple and reigning champion of MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of the Ferrari parent Fiat, admitted that Rossi at the wheel of a Maranello built single seater is &#8220;a great idea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luca says he would like to have a third Ferrari car with Valentino &#8212; it&#8217;s a great idea if he (Rossi) is willing to do it,&#8221; said Marchionne in Italian reports.<\/p>\n<p>The comments are despite Rossi&#8217;s contractual ties to Fiat, with the carmaker a major sponsor of his MotoGP team Yamaha.<\/p>\n<p>Marchionne said he &#8220;cannot say anything&#8221; about Rossi&#8217;s future, with the 31-year-old&#8217;s contract expiring this year.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boss of the Italian carmaker Fiat has backed calls for Valentino Rossi to switch to formula one in 2011.<\/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":[5262,93,718,5261,5340,148,1408,445],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724"}],"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=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4725,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}