{"id":14996,"date":"2012-01-23T06:53:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T11:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14996"},"modified":"2012-01-23T06:53:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T11:53:32","slug":"buemi-to-race-le-mans-with-toyota-in-2012-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/buemi-to-race-le-mans-with-toyota-in-2012-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Buemi to race Le Mans with Toyota in 2012 &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Toro Rosso racer Sebastien Buemi will contest this year&#8217;s fabled Le Mans 24 hour sports car race.<\/p>\n<p>After losing his F1 race seat and being signed to become Red Bull&#8217;s official reserve driver for this season, the 23-year-old Swiss admitted he would also like to contest Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p>The famous endurance race will take place between F1&#8217;s Canadian and European grands prix in mid June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ideally I would couple F1 with a different (series), such as endurance &#8212; I like the Le Mans 24 a lot,&#8221; Buemi said earlier in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no grand prix on that (Le Mans) weekend, so it would be possible.\u00a0 The big teams will start their testing soon, so I could participate as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will probably be able to announce the details of what I will be doing in 2012 fairly soon,&#8221; he added recently.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss newspaper Blick, whose veteran F1 correspondent Roger Benoit is close to Buemi, said Toyota will imminently announce Buemi as one of its Le Mans drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;French sources say the Japanese (Toyota) will announce their teams on January 23,&#8221; read the media report.<\/p>\n<p>Buemi&#8217;s grandfather Georges Gachnang raced at Le Mans in the early 60s.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Toro Rosso racer Sebastien Buemi will contest this year&#8217;s fabled Le Mans 24 hour sports car race. After losing his F1 race seat and being signed to become Red Bull&#8217;s official reserve driver for this season, the 23-year-old Swiss admitted he would also like to contest Le Mans. The famous endurance race will take &#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":[5262,5340,2763,261,256],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996"}],"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=14996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14997,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions\/14997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}