{"id":16568,"date":"2012-08-28T07:20:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T11:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16568"},"modified":"2012-08-28T07:20:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T11:20:03","slug":"report-force-india-duo-racing-without-pay-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/report-force-india-duo-racing-without-pay-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8211; Force India duo racing without pay in 2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Force India&#8217;s drivers may have gone without pay so far in 2012, according to rumours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Nico-Hulkenberg-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nico-Hulkenberg-1\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Austria&#8217;s Sportwoche reports speculation that Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta are the latest victims of team owner Vijay Mallya&#8217;s struggling Indian airline Kingfisher.<\/p>\n<p>As the 2011 season kicked off, German Hulkenberg said the airline&#8217;s high profile financial problems have &#8220;nothing to do with us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is formula one, not an airline,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Business Book GP 2012 estimates Hulkenberg and his Scottish teammate di Resta&#8217;s salaries this year at EUR 500,000 and 200,000 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>But Sportwoche cited more than one paddock source in suggesting that the duo have not been paid anything yet.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine said only the payments from title partner Sahara are keeping the Silverstone based team afloat.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Force India&#8217;s drivers may have gone without pay so far in 2012, according to rumours. Austria&#8217;s Sportwoche reports speculation that Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta are the latest victims of team owner Vijay Mallya&#8217;s struggling Indian airline Kingfisher. As the 2011 season kicked off, German Hulkenberg said the airline&#8217;s high profile financial problems have &#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":[5262,576,5340,448,323,292],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568"}],"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=16568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16569,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions\/16569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}