{"id":8375,"date":"2010-09-14T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2010-09-14T07:15:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:15:03","slug":"raikkonen-return-could-push-petrov-to-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/raikkonen-return-could-push-petrov-to-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Raikkonen return could push Petrov to Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Vitaly Petrov loses his Renault seat at the end of the season, he might still be on the 2011 formula one grid.<\/p>\n<p>French commentator Jean-Louis Moncet, with a column in Auto Plus, writes that Monza and Singapore were earmarked as critical weekends for the Russian rookie.<\/p>\n<p>He had a fairly poor weekend at Monza, but when speaking to reporters on Thursday, he insisted he will still be in the paddock in one year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be in F1 in 2011,&#8221; said Petrov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, when I come here next year I won&#8217;t need to learn anything,&#8221; he then said after finishing 13th at Monza.<\/p>\n<p>Moncet said that if team boss Eric Boullier decides to replace Petrov, he may be offloaded to Lotus, who will almost certainly be powered by Renault engines next year.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on Tuesday indicate that Kimi Raikkonen has approached Renault about driving alongside Robert Kubica in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Would be brilliant,&#8221; wrote Telegraph correspondent Tom Cary on Twitter.\u00a0 &#8220;F1 richer for his presence, although he says nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Vitaly Petrov loses his Renault seat at the end of the season, he might still be on the 2011 formula one grid. French commentator Jean-Louis Moncet, with a column in Auto Plus, writes that Monza and Singapore were earmarked as critical weekends for the Russian rookie. He had a fairly poor weekend at Monza, &#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":[251,5262,5340,152,60,55,415],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375"}],"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=8375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8376,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions\/8376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}