{"id":15620,"date":"2012-03-26T06:56:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15620"},"modified":"2012-03-28T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:14:30","slug":"sauber-denies-team-order-to-help-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-denies-team-order-to-help-ferrari\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber denies team order to help Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conspiracy theorists had a field day at Sepang when Sergio Perez&#8217;s strong push for victory went awry.<\/p>\n<p>At about the same time as the young Mexican was told on the radio by his Sauber engineer that &#8220;we need the position&#8221;, his charge to catch Ferrari&#8217;s Fernando Alonso ended with a minor mistake.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Peter-Sauber-1.JPG\" alt=\"Peter-Sauber-1\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Ferrari is the small Swiss team Sauber&#8217;s engine supplier, and the two teams also often align on political matters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No I don&#8217;t think Perez&#8217;s mistake was intentional,&#8221; former driver and British commentator Martin Brundle wrote on Sky.<\/p>\n<p>But Perez is also the cream of Ferrari&#8217;s development driver programme, and linked at present with the struggling Felipe Massa&#8217;s race seat.<\/p>\n<p>So he was told to fall in line behind Alonso?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; boss Peter Sauber said emphatically.\u00a0 &#8220;100 per cent no, 100pc nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conspiracy theorists had a field day at Sepang when Sergio Perez&#8217;s strong push for victory went awry. At about the same time as the young Mexican was told on the radio by his Sauber engineer that &#8220;we need the position&#8221;, his charge to catch Ferrari&#8217;s Fernando Alonso ended with a minor mistake. Ferrari is &#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":[5262,93,5340,243],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620"}],"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=15620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15679,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions\/15679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}