{"id":18785,"date":"2013-07-15T07:02:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T11:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18785"},"modified":"2013-07-15T07:02:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T11:02:25","slug":"russian-deal-helps-embattled-sauber-eye-long-term-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/russian-deal-helps-embattled-sauber-eye-long-term-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian deal helps embattled Sauber eye &#8216;long-term&#8217; future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid reports the Swiss team is on the brink of collapse, Sauber on Monday announced a Russian tie-up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Peter-Sauber-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Peter-Sauber-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>A day after Peter Sauber confirmed he and team boss Monisha Kaltenborn recently travelled twice to Moscow, the embattled team announced deals with the &#8220;Investment Cooperation International Fund, The State Fund of Development of North-West Russian Federation and the National Institute of Aviation Technologies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sauber said the deal will involve &#8220;the promotion of the sport in Russia&#8221;, the inaugural Russian grand prix next year, and the development of technology that will &#8220;open up &#8230; new revenue streams&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said Russian driver Sergey Sirotkin, who is 17, will be prepared &#8220;as a racing driver for the team in 2014&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This extensive cooperation will showcase Russian innovation at the pinnacle of motor sport,&#8221; said Sauber.\u00a0 &#8220;At the same time, the Sauber F1 Team will have a solid foundation to increase its competitiveness on a long-term basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid reports the Swiss team is on the brink of collapse, Sauber on Monday announced a Russian tie-up. A day after Peter Sauber confirmed he and team boss Monisha Kaltenborn recently travelled twice to Moscow, the embattled team announced deals with the &#8220;Investment Cooperation International Fund, The State Fund of Development of North-West Russian Federation &#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":[5262,5340,316,243,4564],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785"}],"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=18785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}