{"id":14697,"date":"2011-12-23T06:38:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T11:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14697"},"modified":"2011-12-23T06:38:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T11:38:19","slug":"montezemolo-admits-eye-on-german-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/montezemolo-admits-eye-on-german-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezemolo admits eye on &#8216;German drivers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Adrian Sutil, the cloud of his exit at Force India could have a scarlet lining.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has admitted that, with Felipe Massa&#8217;s position to be evaluated during the course of 2012, the fabled Italian marque already has an eye on a couple of German drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Before Montezemolo&#8217;s comments, reports had linked German Sutil, 28, with Ferrari, either for a switch after a single season with Williams, or off the back of a year on the reserve bench.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly we are planning for the future,&#8221; Bild newspaper quotes the Ferrari president as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper thinks Sutil is a candidate, but Montezemolo also mentioned another of the former Force India driver&#8217;s countrymen by name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like Rosberg, as a clear-headed man and someone who is getting better and better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Auto Motor und Sport &#8211; presuming Montezemolo was referring to Sutil as well as Nico Hulkenberg &#8211; quotes the 64-year-old adding: &#8220;There are two other good, young Germans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what about Robert Kubica?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is also a possibility,&#8221; admitted Montezemolo.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ll have to see how he comes back from his accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But despite setting the rumour-mill alight with talk of a driver change, Montezemolo also backed beleaguered Brazilian Massa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our problem is not the driver as in that area we have the best; we need a competitive car,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Adrian Sutil, the cloud of his exit at Force India could have a scarlet lining. Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has admitted that, with Felipe Massa&#8217;s position to be evaluated during the course of 2012, the fabled Italian marque already has an eye on a couple of German drivers. Before Montezemolo&#8217;s comments, reports had &#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":[5311,5262,93,5340,148,448,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697"}],"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=14697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14698,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14697\/revisions\/14698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}