{"id":14036,"date":"2011-10-25T06:49:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14036"},"modified":"2011-10-25T06:49:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:49:49","slug":"leimer-paying-hundreds-of-thousands-for-sauber-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/leimer-paying-hundreds-of-thousands-for-sauber-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Leimer paying &#8216;hundreds of thousands&#8217; for Sauber test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young Swiss is paying handsomely to test Sauber&#8217;s 2011 car next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Hinwil based team announced last week that 22-year-old Fabio Leimer will get a day at the wheel of the Ferrari-powered C30 during mid November&#8217;s Abu Dhabi young driver test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased we can offer Fabio this opportunity,&#8221; said team boss Monisha Kaltenborn.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the Swiss newspaper Blick, Sauber might also be pleased to be banking hundreds of thousands of euros.<\/p>\n<p>GP2 driver Leimer was at Sauber&#8217;s Swiss factory on Monday for a seat fitting.<\/p>\n<p>There, he confirmed: &#8220;Yes, we have had to pay for this test.\u00a0 That&#8217;s just the way it is in formula one, but first you have to be in the position to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leimer would not reveal how much the Sauber ride is costing, but Blick said Toro Rosso is selling its Abu Dhabi test day &#8211; probably to Frenchman Charles Pic &#8211; for EUR 200,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So with Sauber, the amount is probably in the hundreds of thousands,&#8221; said reporter Stefan Meier.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Swiss is paying handsomely to test Sauber&#8217;s 2011 car next month. The Hinwil based team announced last week that 22-year-old Fabio Leimer will get a day at the wheel of the Ferrari-powered C30 during mid November&#8217;s Abu Dhabi young driver test. &#8220;We are pleased we can offer Fabio this opportunity,&#8221; said team boss &#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":[5262,3338,5340,114,3339],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036"}],"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=14036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14037,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036\/revisions\/14037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}