{"id":14516,"date":"2011-12-07T06:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14516"},"modified":"2011-12-07T06:32:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:32:20","slug":"sauber-admits-2011-difficult-for-kobayashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-admits-2011-difficult-for-kobayashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber admits 2011 &#8216;difficult&#8217; for Kobayashi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kamui Kobayashi has admitted he had a difficult season as &#8216;lead driver&#8217; with Sauber in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>As a rookie, the Japanese spent his first full season in F1 in 2010 alongside highly experienced teammates Pedro de la Rosa and Nick Heidfeld.<\/p>\n<p>But this year, the 25-year-old shared the Swiss team&#8217;s garage with rookie Sergio Perez, ultimately finishing the season with double the Mexican&#8217;s haul of points.<\/p>\n<p>Kobayashi, however, admits that the role as the key Sauber driver &#8220;certainly wasn&#8217;t easy for me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I needed to improve a lot in various areas.\u00a0 Not only in driving, but also in making decisions with the engineers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sauber team boss Peter Sauber has decided to keep both Kobayashi and Perez, 21, for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was important to have an emotionally positive finish to the season,&#8221; Sauber wrote in Blick newspaper.\u00a0 &#8220;This was especially true for Kobayashi, who has a difficult year behind him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamui Kobayashi has admitted he had a difficult season as &#8216;lead driver&#8217; with Sauber in 2011. As a rookie, the Japanese spent his first full season in F1 in 2010 alongside highly experienced teammates Pedro de la Rosa and Nick Heidfeld. But this year, the 25-year-old shared the Swiss team&#8217;s garage with rookie Sergio Perez, &#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":[5262,5340,97,243,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516"}],"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=14516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14517,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions\/14517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}