{"id":17375,"date":"2012-12-13T06:54:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17375"},"modified":"2012-12-13T06:54:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:54:25","slug":"bianchi-set-to-secure-force-india-seat-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bianchi-set-to-secure-force-india-seat-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Bianchi set to secure Force India seat &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jules Bianchi has leapt into pole position to join Paul di Resta at Force India next year.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, it was expected the Silverstone based team&#8217;s former race driver Adrian Sutil was the favourite to replace the Sauber-bound Nico Hulkenberg in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>But Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat newspaper said the new favourite is 2012 Force India reserve Bianchi, a 23-year-old rookie who is backed by Ferrari and managed by Felipe Massa&#8217;s manager, Nicolas Todt, the son of FIA president Jean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The announcement is expected before Christmas,&#8221; said correspondent Heikki Kulta.<\/p>\n<p>Kulta added that Force India&#8217;s reportedly likely switch from Mercedes to Ferrari engine power for the 2014 V6 regulations was &#8220;a decisive factor&#8221; in Bianchi&#8217;s favour.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jules Bianchi has leapt into pole position to join Paul di Resta at Force India next year. Earlier, it was expected the Silverstone based team&#8217;s former race driver Adrian Sutil was the favourite to replace the Sauber-bound Nico Hulkenberg in 2013. But Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat newspaper said the new favourite is 2012 Force India reserve &#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":[5262,576,5340,1675,323],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375"}],"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=17375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17376,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375\/revisions\/17376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}