{"id":12488,"date":"2011-05-25T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2011-05-25T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:53:12","slug":"sauber-perez-can-count-on-lucrative-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-perez-can-count-on-lucrative-backing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber, Perez, can count on lucrative backing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber and Sergio Perez can count on their powerful Mexican backing well into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Slim Domit, the son of the world&#8217;s richest man, was in Barcelona last weekend to check on Telmex and other Mexican sponsors&#8217; backing of rookie driver Perez and the Swiss team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very proud, as is the whole country,&#8221; said Slim, referring to the form displayed so far by 21-year-old Perez.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how long he planned to support the driver and his new team, he answered: &#8220;A long, long time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not?&#8221; he added when asked by Blick newspaper if a five-year partnership can be envisaged.\u00a0 &#8220;We have a long term goal.\u00a0 We want to win the world championship one day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the time and with Perez a racing driver with great potential.\u00a0 He is only just beginning his great career,&#8221; said Slim.<\/p>\n<p>He was told by Blick that ultimate success in formula one costs many hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will support Sauber with the necessary resources for as much development as possible.\u00a0 We are very happy with this team.\u00a0 We are like a family,&#8221; added slim.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber and Sergio Perez can count on their powerful Mexican backing well into the future. Carlos Slim Domit, the son of the world&#8217;s richest man, was in Barcelona last weekend to check on Telmex and other Mexican sponsors&#8217; backing of rookie driver Perez and the Swiss team. &#8220;I am very proud, as is the whole &#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":[2290,5262,5340,114,1952],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488"}],"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=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12489,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions\/12489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}