{"id":9870,"date":"2010-11-26T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9870"},"modified":"2010-11-26T08:31:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T13:31:51","slug":"hulkenbergs-manager-confirms-force-india-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hulkenbergs-manager-confirms-force-india-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulkenberg&#8217;s manager confirms Force India talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s manager has confirmed talks about a 2011 race seat with Force India.<\/p>\n<p>With the 23-year-old German ousted by Williams, and Renault now set to re-sign Vitaly Petrov for 2011, reports had named Silverstone based Force India as Hulkenberg&#8217;s best chance to stay on the grid next season.<\/p>\n<p>Sport1.de quotes his manager Willi Weber as saying: &#8220;There are still options, but not too many.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Force India, he admitted: &#8220;There are currently some talks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weber ruled out compiling enough sponsorship for Hulkenberg to buy a cockpit elsewhere.\u00a0 &#8220;If you bring money to a F1 team, then that&#8217;s what you do for the rest of your life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said he would be &#8220;happy&#8221; if Mercedes expressed interest in signing up Hulkenberg as reserve driver.<\/p>\n<p>But the German marque&#8217;s Norbert Haug said: &#8220;It is a disadvantage for your career if you spend a year sitting in a simulator rather than collecting practical experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weber admitted: &#8220;That would be a plan B, with the assurance of sitting in the car in 2012.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s manager has confirmed talks about a 2011 race seat with Force India. With the 23-year-old German ousted by Williams, and Renault now set to re-sign Vitaly Petrov for 2011, reports had named Silverstone based Force India as Hulkenberg&#8217;s best chance to stay on the grid next season. Sport1.de quotes his manager Willi Weber &#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":[5262,576,5340,448],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870"}],"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=9870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9871,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870\/revisions\/9871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}