{"id":16743,"date":"2012-10-08T13:17:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16743"},"modified":"2012-10-08T13:17:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T17:17:41","slug":"massa-staying-at-ferrari-hulkenberg-to-sauber-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-staying-at-ferrari-hulkenberg-to-sauber-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa staying at Ferrari, Hulkenberg to Sauber &#8211; reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some more pieces of the 2013 &#8216;silly season&#8217; puzzle are set to fall into place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Felipe-Massa-car.jpg\" alt=\"Felipe-Massa-car\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>British broadcaster BBC reports with confidence that, with his return to the podium at Suzuka following a two-year drought, Felipe Massa could have his new contract to stay at Ferrari confirmed &#8220;before&#8221; this weekend&#8217;s Korean grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a blow for Force India&#8217;s Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg, who were linked strongly with the Maranello team&#8217;s potentially vacant cockpit.<\/p>\n<p>But Switzerland&#8217;s Blick newspaper reports that German Hulkenberg has a back-up plan that is now &#8220;ready for the signatures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nico Hulkenberg will go to Sauber for at least two years,&#8221; veteran correspondent Roger Benoit reports from Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Blick said former Toro Rosso racer Sebastien Buemi, who this year has been Red Bull&#8217;s official reserve driver, is in the hot seat to replace Hulkenberg.<\/p>\n<p>But Force India&#8217;s Otmar Szafnauer is quoted as telling Blick&#8217;s Benoit: &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t Sauber take Buemi?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more pieces of the 2013 &#8216;silly season&#8217; puzzle are set to fall into place. British broadcaster BBC reports with confidence that, with his return to the podium at Suzuka following a two-year drought, Felipe Massa could have his new contract to stay at Ferrari confirmed &#8220;before&#8221; this weekend&#8217;s Korean grand prix. It&#8217;s a blow &#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":[5262,130,93,5340,1282,448,293,3711,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743"}],"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=16743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16744,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/revisions\/16744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}