{"id":14537,"date":"2011-12-08T06:31:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14537"},"modified":"2011-12-08T06:31:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:31:06","slug":"fota-alliance-crumbles-as-sauber-toro-rosso-depart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fota-alliance-crumbles-as-sauber-toro-rosso-depart\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTA alliance crumbles as Sauber, Toro Rosso depart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teams alliance FOTA looks set to dwindle to just seven members, as Sauber confirms it is pulling out amid speculation Toro Rosso will shortly follow.<\/p>\n<p>With HRT already a non-member, the latest development follows last week&#8217;s news that the biggest-budget Ferrari and Red Bull teams had pulled out.<\/p>\n<p>International media reports quoted official spokespeople for Swiss based team Sauber as confirming that notice has been given to FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reasons were communicated to the teams of the association, but they will not be made public,&#8221; Germany&#8217;s Sport1 reported, citing a team official.<\/p>\n<p>Sauber, like Red Bull junior team Toro Rosso, is powered by Ferrari engines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toro Rosso has not yet announced its departure, but in practice it is certain,&#8221; wrote Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Toro Rosso &#8211; like Red Bull Racing, Ferrari, Sauber and HRT &#8211; was not represented at Tuesday&#8217;s emergency FOTA meeting in London.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teams alliance FOTA looks set to dwindle to just seven members, as Sauber confirms it is pulling out amid speculation Toro Rosso will shortly follow. With HRT already a non-member, the latest development follows last week&#8217;s news that the biggest-budget Ferrari and Red Bull teams had pulled out. International media reports quoted official spokespeople &#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":[5262,5340,118,114,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537"}],"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=14537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14538,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions\/14538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}