{"id":15486,"date":"2012-03-15T07:46:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T11:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15486"},"modified":"2012-03-15T07:46:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T11:46:02","slug":"no-official-reserve-for-ferrari-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-official-reserve-for-ferrari-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"No official reserve for Ferrari in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari will not appoint an official reserve driver in 2012, the famous Italian team has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Maranello based team&#8217;s former reserve, Jules Bianchi, has stepped up to the Friday role at Force India.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Ferrari&#8217;s books are Davide Rigon, Giancarlo Fisichella and Marc Gene.<\/p>\n<p>But in the event Felipe Massa or Fernando Alonso are unable to race at any point this season, Ferrari will &#8220;take one of the drivers who are running around the paddock&#8221;, a spokesman told Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year we saw that Pedro de la Rosa was there and ready to go when Sergio Perez needed to be replaced at Sauber,&#8221; the source added.<\/p>\n<p>For example, it is believed ousted Toro Rosso driver Jaime Alguersuari accepted the full-time radio co-commentary role with the BBC in the hope he will be needed by a team at some point this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes, too, will not have its official reserve &#8211; Sam Bird &#8211; on site throughout the long 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes little sense with the test limits to pay for an experienced test driver full-time,&#8221; explained Norbert Haug.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari will not appoint an official reserve driver in 2012, the famous Italian team has confirmed. The Maranello based team&#8217;s former reserve, Jules Bianchi, has stepped up to the Friday role at Force India. Also on Ferrari&#8217;s books are Davide Rigon, Giancarlo Fisichella and Marc Gene. But in the event Felipe Massa or Fernando Alonso &#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":[5262,130,149,93,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486"}],"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=15486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15487,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions\/15487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}