{"id":15769,"date":"2012-04-09T20:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T00:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15769"},"modified":"2012-04-09T20:41:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T00:41:01","slug":"sauber-names-kaltenborn-as-future-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-names-kaltenborn-as-future-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber names Kaltenborn as future successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monisha Kaltenborn will become F1&#8217;s first ever female team boss.<\/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\/Monisha-Kaltenborn-1.JPG\" alt=\"Monisha-Kaltenborn-1\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is the revelation of Peter Sauber, who at the age of 68 has hinted he might call it a day before his 70th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Kaltenborn, 41, is already Hinwil based Sauber&#8217;s chief executive, while Peter Sauber remains the team principal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have always said that I will not be sitting on the pitwall as a 70 year old,&#8221; Sauber told Der Sonntag newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With certainty, my successor is Monisha Kaltenborn.\u00a0 That is for sure.\u00a0 When it (the handover) happens is still open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She will be the first female team boss in formula one history,&#8221; Sauber continued.\u00a0 &#8220;She&#8217;s been with us for 13 years, always with leading roles.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure she will do the job very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sauber, in fact, has already departed the pitwall once before, when he sold his team to BMW and handed over to Mario Theissen.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat reluctantly, he returned in 2010, having rescued the Hinwil based employees in the wake of German carmaker&#8217;s sudden withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could not jump into the breach a second time,&#8221; smiled Sauber, hinting that his retirement this time around would be final.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monisha Kaltenborn will become F1&#8217;s first ever female team boss. That is the revelation of Peter Sauber, who at the age of 68 has hinted he might call it a day before his 70th birthday. Indian Kaltenborn, 41, is already Hinwil based Sauber&#8217;s chief executive, while Peter Sauber remains the team principal. &#8220;I have always &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,3689,5340,316,243],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769"}],"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=15769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15770,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769\/revisions\/15770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}