{"id":17705,"date":"2013-01-31T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17705"},"modified":"2013-01-31T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T11:55:09","slug":"kaltenborn-excuses-frijns-for-sauber-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kaltenborn-excuses-frijns-for-sauber-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaltenborn excuses Frijns for Sauber criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber team boss Monisha Kaltenborn has hinted that new reserve driver Robin Frijns will get a Friday practice outing this season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Monisha-Kaltenborn-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Monisha-Kaltenborn-1.JPG\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Earlier this week, 21-year-old reigning Formula Renault 3.5 champion and Dutchman Frijns complained that he will &#8220;not have much to do&#8221; in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He had told Dutch magazine Formule1 that he is not required by his new Swiss employer for the forthcoming winter test period, and it &#8220;looks unlikely I will be used during the Friday practice sessions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And Sauber has no simulator so I can&#8217;t gain experience in that way,&#8221; added Frijns.<\/p>\n<p>Kaltenborn reacted to Frijn&#8217;s comments by excusing his implied criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Robin is still young,&#8221; she told the Swiss newspaper Blick, &#8220;so we should not place his every word on golden scales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said what he said, but he is also irritated because he has not yet found a place in GP2 for this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The development (programmes) for the young drivers is a real problem,&#8221; Kaltenborn continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best thing for each team would be to give every reserve driver at least one go on a Friday (practice session).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber team boss Monisha Kaltenborn has hinted that new reserve driver Robin Frijns will get a Friday practice outing this season. Earlier this week, 21-year-old reigning Formula Renault 3.5 champion and Dutchman Frijns complained that he will &#8220;not have much to do&#8221; in 2013. He had told Dutch magazine Formule1 that he is not required &#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":[5262,5340,316,4105,1767],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17705"}],"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=17705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17706,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17705\/revisions\/17706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}