{"id":1827,"date":"2017-07-15T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2017-07-31T21:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T01:29:12","slug":"1827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2017\/07\/15\/1827\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz Jr to replace Jolyon Palmer at Renault in Red Bull dispute &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Red Bull Racing<\/strong> has severed ties with <strong>Carlos Sainz Jr<\/strong> according to Germany&#8217;s Auto Bild and F1Today.net. This is a result of the Spanish driver criticizing the Austrian team in public in a number of interviews at Red Bull&#8217;s home race last week.<\/p>\n<h2>Carlos Sainz Jr to replace Jolyon Palmer at Renault in Red Bull dispute- report<\/h2>\n<p>It is understood that Sainz will move to <strong>Renault<\/strong> for the<strong> Hungarian Grand Prix<\/strong>, despite holding a contract with Toro Rosso for the remainder of 2017. Renault&#8217;s <strong>Cyril Abiteboul<\/strong> and<strong> Dr Helmut Marko<\/strong> of the Red Bull Young Driver Programme are currently in talks and are negotiating a deal to get Sainz out of his <strong>Toro Rosso<\/strong> contract. It is suspected that Renault will have to raise $8 million to complete this.<\/p>\n<p>If Renault did raise this amount of money, Sainz would replace<strong> Jolyon Palmer<\/strong> at Renault for the Hungarian Grand Prix to partner <strong>Nico Hulkenberg<\/strong> at Renault. With a vacant seat at Toro Rosso, it is understood that 2016 GP2 Champion <strong>Pierre Gasly<\/strong> would be promoted to the seat for the remainder of the season to partner <strong>Daniil Kvyat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow<br \/>\nMain Photo<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/814880018\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/814880018?et=gfDx_wJqRh11jEU00qmTLw&amp;tld=co.uk&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=9asrWkscEeg9Mk5ew9mC3WJqwcJfkj8Q5P9cMmrmHmE=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Main Photo Caption: Carlos Sainz of Scuderia Toro Rosso and Spain during qualifying for the Formula One Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone on July 15, 2017 in Northampton, England. (Photo by Peter Fox \/ Getty Images Sport)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull Racing has severed ties with Carlos Sainz Jr according to Germany&#8217;s Auto Bild and F1Today.net. This is a result of the Spanish driver criticizing the Austrian team in public in a number of interviews at Red Bull&#8217;s home race last week. Carlos Sainz Jr to replace Jolyon Palmer at Renault in Red Bull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":1828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[657,506,23,28,111,78,135,279],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-formula-1","tag-breaking-news","tag-carlos-sainz-jr","tag-formula-1","tag-jolyon-palmer","tag-pierre-gasly","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-renault","tag-toro-rosso"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}