{"id":17176,"date":"2012-11-23T07:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T12:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17176"},"modified":"2012-11-23T07:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T12:23:33","slug":"sauber-replaces-kobayashi-with-gutierrez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-replaces-kobayashi-with-gutierrez\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber replaces Kobayashi with Gutierrez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber on Friday confirmed reports Esteban Gutierrez has been signed to be Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s teammate in 2013.<\/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 news means Japanese Kamui Kobayashi has lost his seat with the Swiss team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has not been an easy decision for us to take,&#8221; said team boss Monisha Kaltenborn, &#8220;but we have committed ourselves to a new beginning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>21-year-old Mexican Gutierrez, who is backed by Sauber&#8217;s major sponsor Telmex, also succeeds the similarly Telmex-sponsored Sergio Perez, who has been signed by McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in no doubt we have a strong driver pairing in place for the 2013 season,&#8221; said team boss Monisha Kaltenborn.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing Gutierrez as Sauber&#8217;s reserve driver is the impressive Dutchman Robin Frijns, who like Gutierrez is 21.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Frijns, who won the Formula Renault 3.5 series this year as a rookie, Kaltenborn said: &#8220;We will now carefully guide him to formula one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber on Friday confirmed reports Esteban Gutierrez has been signed to be Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s teammate in 2013. The news means Japanese Kamui Kobayashi has lost his seat with the Swiss team. &#8220;This has not been an easy decision for us to take,&#8221; said team boss Monisha Kaltenborn, &#8220;but we have committed ourselves to a new &#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":[2223,5262,5340,316,448,4105,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176"}],"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=17176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17177,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176\/revisions\/17177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}