{"id":7075,"date":"2010-07-16T06:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T10:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2010-07-16T06:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T10:54:38","slug":"villeneuve-spokeswoman-silent-on-f1-team-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/villeneuve-spokeswoman-silent-on-f1-team-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Villeneuve, spokeswoman, silent on F1 team reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Villeneuve and his spokeswoman have declined to confirm reports the 1997 world champion is bidding to return to F1 next year with his own team.<\/p>\n<p>German reports said &#8216;Villeneuve Racing&#8217;, possibly involving Flavio Briatore, Pat Symonds and former Arrows and Super Aguri staff, is one of three remaining candidates to fill the final spot in the 2011 pitlane.<\/p>\n<p>But French Canadian Villeneuve&#8217;s spokeswoman would only tell the French language Canoe publication that the 39-year-old is &#8220;focusing his efforts on a return to NASCAR while also working on a return to F1&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And the French language source RDS said Villeneuve is not commenting on the Auto Motor und Sport report.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Canadian publication Rue Frontenac insists that crashgate conspirators Briatore and Symonds are not involved in the Villeneuve project.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the report said the winner of 11 grands prix is supported by the former GP2 team Durango for a potentially Italian-based F1 team.<\/p>\n<p>Rue Frontenac, who said Villeneuve was not contactable on Thursday, also reported that he is set to return to NASCAR&#8217;s premier Sprint Cup series next weekend at Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Villeneuve and his spokeswoman have declined to confirm reports the 1997 world champion is bidding to return to F1 next year with his own team. German reports said &#8216;Villeneuve Racing&#8217;, possibly involving Flavio Briatore, Pat Symonds and former Arrows and Super Aguri staff, is one of three remaining candidates to fill the final spot &#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":[5262,5340,61,1964,1960],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075"}],"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=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7076,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}