{"id":5350,"date":"2010-05-13T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2010-05-13T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:48:19","slug":"french-gp2-team-art-confirms-bid-for-2011-f1-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/french-gp2-team-art-confirms-bid-for-2011-f1-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"French GP2 team ART confirms bid for 2011 F1 entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French GP2 outfit ART Grand Prix is bidding to become the thirteenth team on the 2011 formula one grid.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;Yes, we have applied to join the world championship in 2011,&#8221; Frederic Vasseur, co-founder, confirmed to France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo.<\/p>\n<p>The team is also headed by Nicolas Todt, son of FIA president Jean Todt and manager of the Ferrari driver Felipe Massa.<\/p>\n<p>ART also races in F3 Euroseries and GP3.<\/p>\n<p>Expressions of interest for the 13th place closed on April 15, and the FIA is said to be moving towards a final decision by July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did not want to confirm our willingness to engage in formula one until now, to best prepare for this very complex issue and not compromise our current activities,&#8221; Vasseur added.<\/p>\n<p>Vasseur also said the existing F1 teams have been informed &#8220;of our intentions&#8221;, adding that he has &#8220;good relationships with Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The choice of engine is not yet defined,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Auto Hebdo said Epsilon Euskadi, Durango and Stefan GP are also bidding for the last place in the 2011 pitlane.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French GP2 outfit ART Grand Prix is bidding to become the thirteenth team on the 2011 formula one grid.<\/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":[1597,5262,149,5340,1598],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350"}],"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=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5352,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}