{"id":15161,"date":"2012-02-09T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15161"},"modified":"2012-02-09T06:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:53:58","slug":"hrt-owners-eye-sale-to-richest-man-carlos-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hrt-owners-eye-sale-to-richest-man-carlos-slim\/","title":{"rendered":"HRT owners eye sale to richest man Carlos Slim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HRT&#8217;s tumultuous history could be set to continue, if a report in an authoritative German newspaper is right.<\/p>\n<p>Die Welt claims Thesan Capital, the Madrid-based investment company that bought the Spanish team from Jose Ramon Carabante last year, is already on the lookout for a new buyer.<\/p>\n<p>Originally known as Hispania, HRT was actually founded as Campos by former Spanish F1 driver Adrian Campos when the FIA opened up the grid ahead of the 2010 season.<\/p>\n<p>Die Welt claims that the latest owner Thesan&#8217;s desire to sell follows the departure of team boss Colin Kolles, who left with almost every one of the team&#8217;s 120 employees back to his Greding based company.<\/p>\n<p>Kolles also took all of HRT&#8217;s technical equipment back to Greding, Germany, leaving the team on a desperate struggle to be ready for the forthcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, HRT announced on Wednesday it is establishing a permanent base at the Spanish tennis open headquarters Caja Magica in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>But Die Welt claims the team may soon be sold to Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world who already backs Sauber through Sergio Perez and his Mexican companies.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRT&#8217;s tumultuous history could be set to continue, if a report in an authoritative German newspaper is right. Die Welt claims Thesan Capital, the Madrid-based investment company that bought the Spanish team from Jose Ramon Carabante last year, is already on the lookout for a new buyer. Originally known as Hispania, HRT was actually founded &#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":[328,2078,602,5340,3584,842,3169],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161"}],"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=15161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15162,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions\/15162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}