{"id":17828,"date":"2013-02-19T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17828"},"modified":"2013-02-19T07:01:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:01:07","slug":"sutil-happy-and-grateful-for-force-india-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sutil-happy-and-grateful-for-force-india-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutil &#8216;happy and grateful&#8217; for Force India chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Sutil is &#8220;very, very happy&#8221; Force India is giving him a chance to shine by his former team Force India at Barcelona this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Adrian-Sutil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Adrian-Sutil.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>&#8220;He&#8217;s very, very happy this is taking place,&#8221; the German&#8217;s manager Manfred Zimmermann is quoted by DPA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Sutil, now 30, spent his entire five-year F1 career with the Silverstone based team until 2011, when he lost his seat at the end of the season in the wake of the Eric Lux assault affair.<\/p>\n<p>He is now a contender to return to the grid this year, with Force India confirming he will test alongside rival Jules Bianchi as the second pre-season test takes place this week.<\/p>\n<p>The team said Sutil will drive on day three (Thursday) in Barcelona, before handing over to the Ferrari-linked Frenchman Bianchi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not a shoot-out,&#8221; a Force India spokesman told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Sutil told Bild newspaper: &#8220;I am happy and grateful that Force India is giving me this chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s Marca sports newspaper said Sutil&#8217;s backers are offering the team EUR 8 million in sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Sutil is &#8220;very, very happy&#8221; Force India is giving him a chance to shine by his former team Force India at Barcelona this week. &#8220;He&#8217;s very, very happy this is taking place,&#8221; the German&#8217;s manager Manfred Zimmermann is quoted by DPA news agency. Sutil, now 30, spent his entire five-year F1 career with the &#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":[5311,5262,576,5340,3464],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828"}],"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=17828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17829,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions\/17829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}