{"id":16813,"date":"2012-10-11T07:13:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16813"},"modified":"2012-10-11T07:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:13:12","slug":"sauber-makes-kaltenborn-first-female-f1-team-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-makes-kaltenborn-first-female-f1-team-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber makes Kaltenborn first female F1 team boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sauber has handed over the role of team principal to Monisha Kaltenborn, making her the first female boss on the pitwall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Monisha-Kaltenborn-2.JPG\" alt=\"Monisha-Kaltenborn-2\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The Swiss squad announced in a statement that, two days ahead of his 69th birthday, founder Peter Sauber &#8220;is stepping back from the day-to-day running of the team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>41-year-old Kaltenborn, an Austrian with Indian origins and already a team co-owner, will take over as team boss &#8220;with immediate effect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sauber will stay as president of the board of directors and remain responsible &#8220;for the group&#8217;s strategic direction&#8221;, the media statement added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now is a good time for both of us, so this is the right moment to pass on the baton,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After all, there have been a number of races I&#8217;ve been unable to attend -\u2013 most recently the Japanese Grand Prix, where the team put in an excellent performance,&#8221; added Sauber.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sauber has handed over the role of team principal to Monisha Kaltenborn, making her the first female boss on the pitwall. The Swiss squad announced in a statement that, two days ahead of his 69th birthday, founder Peter Sauber &#8220;is stepping back from the day-to-day running of the team&#8221;. 41-year-old Kaltenborn, an Austrian with &#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":[5262,5340,2281,1282,316,243],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813"}],"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=16813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16814,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813\/revisions\/16814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}