{"id":13241,"date":"2011-07-28T07:18:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T11:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13241"},"modified":"2011-07-28T07:18:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T11:18:22","slug":"sauber-keeps-same-drivers-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-keeps-same-drivers-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber keeps same drivers for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber on Thursday said its current drivers Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez are staying with the Swiss team in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The team also said in the media statement that Perez&#8217;s Mexican countryman Esteban Gutierrez, 19, will remain the official reserve driver next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very pleased with our drivers,&#8221; said boss Peter Sauber, who revealed that Japanese Kobayashi&#8217;s deal is the result of the Hinwil based team taking up an &#8220;option&#8221; on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>As for Perez, closely linked with the team&#8217;s sponsors including Telmex, team principal and owner Sauber said his existing contract already &#8220;went beyond 2011&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber on Thursday said its current drivers Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez are staying with the Swiss team in 2012. The team also said in the media statement that Perez&#8217;s Mexican countryman Esteban Gutierrez, 19, will remain the official reserve driver next year. &#8220;We are very pleased with our drivers,&#8221; said boss Peter Sauber, who &#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":[5262,5340,97,114,1952],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241"}],"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=13241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13242,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions\/13242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}