{"id":352260,"date":"2010-02-23T04:23:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T09:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/andy-soucek-signs-virgin-racing-deal-17212.html"},"modified":"2010-02-23T04:23:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T09:23:22","slug":"andy-soucek-signs-virgin-racing-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352260","title":{"rendered":"Andy Soucek Signs Virgin Racing Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/images\/news\/andy-soucek-signs-virgin-racing-deal-17212-3.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>What was only a rumor yesterday turned into a certainty less than 24 hours later, as Spanish driver Andy Soucek was today confirmed as new test and reserve driver for newly-entrant team Virgin Racing. The reigning F2 champion will therefore replace Portuguese racer Alvaro Parente at the British team, after the latter was ousted due to financial problems.<\/p>\n<p> I am thrilled to be joining Virgin Racing. This role offers me a great opportunity to prepare myself for the Formula 1 environment, which is&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/andy-soucek-signs-virgin-racing-deal-17212.html\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was only a rumor yesterday turned into a certainty less than 24 hours later, as Spanish driver Andy Soucek was today confirmed as new test and reserve driver for newly-entrant team Virgin Racing. The reigning F2 champion will therefore replace Portuguese racer Alvaro Parente at the British team, after the latter was ousted due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}