{"id":7285,"date":"2010-07-25T07:50:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T11:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2010-07-25T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T11:50:03","slug":"williams-set-to-keep-same-drivers-in-2011-co-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-set-to-keep-same-drivers-in-2011-co-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams set to keep same drivers in 2011 &#8211; co-owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams looks set to keep the same driver lineup in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Team figures indicated recently that the extension of Rubens Barrichello&#8217;s contract is a mere formality.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian veteran&#8217;s current teammate is the reigning GP2 champion Nico Hulkenberg, who said recently he was worried about losing his seat for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ah, that was more of a joke,&#8221; the 22-year-old German told F1&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously I would be disappointed should I lose it.\u00a0 It means that I have to perform as well as I can and be as strong as I can to convince the team that I belong here,&#8221; added Hulkenberg.<\/p>\n<p>He admits that team owners Frank Williams and Patrick Head &#8220;expected some more points&#8221; from him so far in 2010 &#8212; currently he has 2 compared with Barrichello&#8217;s 29.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by motorline.cc if both Hulkenberg and Barrichello will still be racing for Williams in 2011, the team&#8217;s third co-owner Toto Wolff said: &#8220;That is the likelihood, yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wolff bought an undisclosed minority share of the Grove based team from Williams and Head late last year.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams looks set to keep the same driver lineup in 2011. Team figures indicated recently that the extension of Rubens Barrichello&#8217;s contract is a mere formality. The Brazilian veteran&#8217;s current teammate is the reigning GP2 champion Nico Hulkenberg, who said recently he was worried about losing his seat for 2011. &#8220;Ah, that was more of &#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":[5262,5340,448,124,352,541,155],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285"}],"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=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7286,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions\/7286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}