{"id":15023,"date":"2012-01-25T06:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15023"},"modified":"2012-01-25T06:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:57:04","slug":"sainz-jr-races-under-red-bull-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sainz-jr-races-under-red-bull-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainz Jr races under Red Bull spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Red Bull juniors Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne stepping up for 2012, the spotlight is set to fall on the energy drink company&#8217;s next young hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>That youngster is Carlos Sainz Jr, the 17-year-old son of the Spanish world rally legend.<\/p>\n<p>Sainz Jr is now the cream of Red Bull&#8217;s junior driver programme, and this week is heading to Milton Keynes to drive the F1 team&#8217;s state-of-the-art driver simulator, Spanish sports newspaper Marca reports.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the spotlight this year is Russian 17-year-old Kaniil Kvyat, who like Sainz Jr is the other &#8216;veteran&#8217; of the Red Bull programme.<\/p>\n<p>Sainz Jr moves into the British F3 championship for 2012; a category previously won by former Red Bull juniors Ricciardo, Vergne and Jaime Alguersuari.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Red Bull juniors Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne stepping up for 2012, the spotlight is set to fall on the energy drink company&#8217;s next young hopeful. That youngster is Carlos Sainz Jr, the 17-year-old son of the Spanish world rally legend. Sainz Jr is now the cream of Red Bull&#8217;s junior driver programme, and &#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":[3558,1096,5262,5340,1896,3559,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15023"}],"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=15023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15024,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15023\/revisions\/15024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}