{"id":5198,"date":"2010-05-09T06:51:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2010-05-09T06:51:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:51:49","slug":"renault-eyes-fourth-by-july-to-retain-kubica-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-eyes-fourth-by-july-to-retain-kubica-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault eyes fourth by July to retain Kubica &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With regards to Robert Kubica&#8217;s future, July 15 could be a significant date for the Pole.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An Italian report said earlier this week that the 25-year-old, who currently drives for Renault, has signed some sort of &#8220;option&#8221; with Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the option gives Ferrari the ability to definitively sign Kubica for 2011 by July 15.<\/p>\n<p>It is now reported by Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat that July 15 is also a significant date within the pages of Kubica&#8217;s current Renault contract.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Kubica will be free to sign for another team for 2011 if Renault is not at least fourth in the constructors&#8217; championship.<\/p>\n<p>Renault is currently fifth, 14 points behind Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, Kubica would become Fernando Alonso&#8217;s new teammate in the place of Felipe Massa, whose contract is set to expire.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why he has not yet renewed his Ferrari deal, Massa told Spain&#8217;s Marca newspaper: &#8220;There is no problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just that we are talking about it at the moment,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With regards to Robert Kubica&#8217;s future, July 15 could be a significant date for the Pole.<\/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":[5262,130,149,93,5261,5340,55,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198"}],"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=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5199,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}