{"id":17182,"date":"2012-11-24T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17182"},"modified":"2012-11-24T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T12:59:00","slug":"kobayashi-asks-fans-for-money-to-save-f1-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kobayashi-asks-fans-for-money-to-save-f1-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobayashi asks fans for money to save F1 career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kamui Kobayashi is hoping a new website will help him raise the money to stay in formula one beyond Sunday&#8217;s Brazilian grand prix.<\/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-drivers\/Kamui-Kobayashi.JPG\" alt=\"Kamui-Kobayashi\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Sauber announced on Friday that it will pair Nico Hulkenberg with the Telmex-backed Mexican rookie Esteban Gutierrez in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think if a driver deserves to be in formula one he&#8217;s definitely one of them and I hope he can get support from Japanese companies and stay in the sport,&#8221; Monisha Kaltenborn, admitting the decision to oust Kobayashi was &#8220;tough&#8221;, said in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Kobayashi admitted at Interlagos that the &#8216;kamui-support.com&#8217; website is designed to collect money from his fans in order to secure one of the last seats on the 2013 grid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It (the website) has been (live for) just two days but it&#8217;s going to help my career for sure,&#8221; he is quoted by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The website includes the popular 26-year-old&#8217;s bank account details.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamui Kobayashi is hoping a new website will help him raise the money to stay in formula one beyond Sunday&#8217;s Brazilian grand prix. Sauber announced on Friday that it will pair Nico Hulkenberg with the Telmex-backed Mexican rookie Esteban Gutierrez in 2013. &#8220;I think if a driver deserves to be in formula one he&#8217;s definitely &#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":[2059,2223,5262,5340,4151,97,316,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182"}],"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=17182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17183,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions\/17183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}