{"id":1864,"date":"2010-01-28T07:03:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2010-01-28T07:03:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:03:38","slug":"sauber-race-numbers-to-be-decided-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-race-numbers-to-be-decided-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber race numbers to be decided on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The race numbers to be allocated to the Sauber team in 2010 are still uncertain.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the end of November, and in the wake of BMW&#8217;s withdrawal, the FIA issued an entry list prior to the confirmation of the Swiss team&#8217;s ongoing participation.<\/p>\n<p>BMW-Sauber finished the 2009 season in sixth place, meaning that in theory the Hinwil based team&#8217;s drivers should this year wear the race numbers 11 and 12.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fifth placed Toyota, however, has withdrawn, meaning that Kamui Kobayashi and Pedro de la Rosa may receive the numbers 9 and 10.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s desire to have the numbers 9 and 10, rather than 26 and 27, could explain the reluctance so far to apply to change the official name from BMW-Sauber, even in the wake of the German carmaker&#8217;s complete withdrawal from F1.<\/p>\n<p>But this will have implications for Williams, Renault, Force India, Toro Rosso and all four of F1&#8217;s new teams, who would have their confirmed race numbers pushed back by two at short notice.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport said the issue will be discussed at Monday&#8217;s Paris meeting of the F1 Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Also reportedly to be discussed is a possible reduction in each driver&#8217;s allocation of tyres, with Bridgestone proposing a reduction from 14 to 10 sets.<\/p>\n<p>The teams are reportedly proposing to compromise by settling for 11 sets per driver.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race numbers to be allocated to the Sauber team in 2010 are still uncertain. \u00a0 At the end of November, and in the wake of BMW&#8217;s withdrawal, the FIA issued an entry list prior to the confirmation of the Swiss team&#8217;s ongoing participation. BMW-Sauber finished the 2009 season in sixth place, meaning that in &#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":[507,5262,5300,509,508],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864"}],"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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}