{"id":7150,"date":"2010-07-20T06:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T10:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2010-07-20T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T10:58:13","slug":"williams-tester-bottas-eyes-f1-debut-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-tester-bottas-eyes-f1-debut-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams tester Bottas eyes F1 debut in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams reserve driver Valtteri Bottas is targeting a place on the 2012 grid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Williams is not likely to change drivers for next season, but 2012 might be different,&#8221; the 20-year-old Finn, a frontrunner in the F3 Euroseries, is quoted by Turun Sanomat.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Bottas conducts some straightline tests for the famous British team, and like his predecessor Nico Hulkenberg undertakes tasks at the Grove factory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a bit like an apprenticeship for an F1 driver,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bottas said he will do some more aerodynamic testing in 2010, &#8220;and after the season the young drivers test in Abu Dhabi&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next step would be GP2,&#8221; he explained.\u00a0 &#8220;Williams will probably be involved in the decision about the team when the time comes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bottas could also immediately step into the FW32 if either Hulkenberg or Rubens Barrichello are unable to race, even though he does not currently possess a mandatory super license.<\/p>\n<p>He is managed by 1998 and 1999 world champion Mika Hakkinen, who works for his own manager Didier Coton&#8217;s organisation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My career is in good hands and I never would have reached this point without them,&#8221; insisted Bottas.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams reserve driver Valtteri Bottas is targeting a place on the 2012 grid. &#8220;Williams is not likely to change drivers for next season, but 2012 might be different,&#8221; the 20-year-old Finn, a frontrunner in the F3 Euroseries, is quoted by Turun Sanomat. Currently, Bottas conducts some straightline tests for the famous British team, and like &#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":[5262,5340,538,155],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150"}],"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=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}