{"id":6900,"date":"2010-07-09T09:14:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2010-07-09T21:16:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T01:16:32","slug":"money-not-reason-for-senna-ousting-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/money-not-reason-for-senna-ousting-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Money not reason for Senna ousting &#8211; sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources at the HRT team have denied Bruno Senna was dropped due to considerations about money.<\/p>\n<p>Well-funded Japanese driver Sakon Yamamoto is in team regular Senna&#8217;s car at Silverstone, and on Friday morning was a full second slower than teammate Karun Chandhok.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Colin Kolles announced the driver change to reporters late on Thursday night, but said additional information will only be forthcoming with a statement on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing at midday, that media statement has not been issued.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of an alternative theory, it was assumed that sponsorship problems for Senna was the issue.<\/p>\n<p>But team sources on Friday morning denied that is the case.<\/p>\n<p>Senna is in the paddock on Friday, but he has declined to speak to the press.\u00a0 His manager said in a BBC report that claims the 26-year-old Brazilian has been sacked are &#8220;absolutely ridiculous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To other news outlets, Senna&#8217;s manager Chris Goodwin refused to comment.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources at the HRT team have denied Bruno Senna was dropped due to considerations about money. Well-funded Japanese driver Sakon Yamamoto is in team regular Senna&#8217;s car at Silverstone, and on Friday morning was a full second slower than teammate Karun Chandhok. Team boss Colin Kolles announced the driver change to reporters late on Thursday &#8230;<\/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":[1741,381,602,5262,5340,842,1374,5327],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900"}],"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=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6901,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}