{"id":9180,"date":"2010-10-24T00:58:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T04:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2010-10-24T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T14:12:04","slug":"money-to-play-role-in-2011-driver-decision-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/money-to-play-role-in-2011-driver-decision-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Money to play role in 2011 driver decision &#8211; Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considerations about money will play a role in the formulation of Williams&#8217; driver lineup for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>That is the admission of the famous British team&#8217;s co-owner Patrick Head, amid speculation Nico Hulkenberg could be dumped in favour of new GP2 champion Pastor Maldonado.<\/p>\n<p>Maldonado is heavily backed by the state Venezuelan petroleum company PDVSA, to the tune of a reported EUR 15 million.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the rumours, Head told reporters on Sunday that the question should be directed to team chairman Adam Parr, who is not in Korea this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>But when pressed about the role to be played by funding, he acknowledged: &#8220;Those are things which we will weigh up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Head added: &#8220;It&#8217;s terrible to hide behind a board but these things will be debated and are being debated in the Williams board.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considerations about money will play a role in the formulation of Williams&#8217; driver lineup for 2011. That is the admission of the famous British team&#8217;s co-owner Patrick Head, amid speculation Nico Hulkenberg could be dumped in favour of new GP2 champion Pastor Maldonado. Maldonado is heavily backed by the state Venezuelan petroleum company PDVSA, to &#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":[5262,5340,448,1842,124,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180"}],"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=9180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9181,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9180\/revisions\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}