{"id":5395,"date":"2010-05-15T06:41:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/formula-1\/renault-wants-to-build-team-around-kubica\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:41:41","slug":"renault-wants-to-build-team-around-kubica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-wants-to-build-team-around-kubica\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault wants to &#8216;build team around&#8217; Kubica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renault wants to build its team around Robert Kubica.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->That is the claim of the team&#8217;s new majority owner Gerard Lopez, amid rising speculation that Pole Kubica is being lined up for a 2011 switch to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the French carmaker&#8217;s part-withdrawal from F1 at the end of 2009, Kubica has been widely credited for Renault&#8217;s solid season so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old looks particularly impressive on the streets of Monaco, where Lopez admitted that Renault is willing to fully embrace Kubica&#8217;s presence into the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is in a unique position, as a racer, to have a team built around him now and we see it that way,&#8221; Lopez, who announced he has sold a share of the team to oil company PetroSaudi CEO and friend Tarek Obaid, is quoted by the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Kubica declined to comment about his future in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renault wants to build its team around Robert Kubica.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,58,1564,55,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395"}],"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=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}