{"id":7024,"date":"2010-07-15T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2010-07-15T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:52:11","slug":"virgin-eyeing-pay-driver-perez-for-f1-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-eyeing-pay-driver-perez-for-f1-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin eyeing pay-driver Perez for F1 seat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young Mexican driver is knocking on the door of his formula one debut.<\/p>\n<p>20-year-old GP2 driver Sergio Perez, with the backing of the telecommunications giant Telmex, was linked last winter with the available pay-drives at F1&#8217;s new teams.<\/p>\n<p>And according to the latest whispers, he may have now attracted the interest of the struggling Virgin team.<\/p>\n<p>The currently Richard Branson-backed outfit is struggling for performance and reliability with a budget of less than $40 million, and Timo Glock is now being linked with a move for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Sergio Perez rumours might be linked with the appearance in the Silverstone paddock on Saturday and Sunday of Carlos Slim.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican Slim, one of the world&#8217;s richest men, is the CEO and chairman of Telmex, which may be looking to graduate from GP2 to formula one.<\/p>\n<p>It is also believed that Perez&#8217; push into formula one is supported by Jo Ramirez, the retired long time team coordinator at McLaren who was seen in the F1 paddock recently at Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>Perez dominated the Silverstone GP2 sprint race, and he won the feature race at Monaco.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Mexican driver is knocking on the door of his formula one debut. 20-year-old GP2 driver Sergio Perez, with the backing of the telecommunications giant Telmex, was linked last winter with the available pay-drives at F1&#8217;s new teams. And according to the latest whispers, he may have now attracted the interest of the struggling &#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":[5262,5340,1952,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024"}],"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=7024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}