{"id":1423,"date":"2010-01-11T16:43:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T21:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2010-01-11T16:43:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T21:43:58","slug":"de-la-rosa-sauber-announcement-imminent-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/de-la-rosa-sauber-announcement-imminent-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"De la Rosa-Sauber announcement imminent &#8211; reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Pedro de la Rosa will be confirmed imminently as Kamui Kobayashi&#8217;s Sauber teammate for 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss newspaper Blick, whose F1 correspondent Roger Benoit is close to the Hinwil based team&#8217;s founder and boss Peter Sauber, said an announcement could be made this week.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s Diario AS also said long-time McLaren <!--more-->test driver de la Rosa, 38, has now agreed a race deal with Sauber, with an announcement due &#8220;in a matter of hours&#8221;, or a few &#8220;days&#8221; at the most.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the contract is for 2010, with an option to include an additional season.\u00a0 De la Rosa&#8217;s main opponent for the seat was believed to have been Ferrari reserve driver Giancarlo Fisichella.<\/p>\n<p>The sports newspaper also said Sauber has secured two new sponsors, including Universia, a subsidiary of the Spanish bank Santander that was recently expected to depart Renault along with Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de la Rosa will be confirmed imminently as Kamui Kobayashi&#8217;s Sauber teammate for 2010. \u00a0 The Swiss newspaper Blick, whose F1 correspondent Roger Benoit is close to the Hinwil based team&#8217;s founder and boss Peter Sauber, said an announcement could be made this week. Spain&#8217;s Diario AS also said long-time McLaren<\/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":[5262,97,5284,271,243,114,340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"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=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}