{"id":18864,"date":"2013-07-25T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18864"},"modified":"2013-07-25T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T11:17:00","slug":"rumour-frijns-to-replace-hulkenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rumour-frijns-to-replace-hulkenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour &#8211; Frijns to replace Hulkenberg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of events has come together to form formula one&#8217;s very latest hot rumour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Nico-Hulkenberg-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Nico-Hulkenberg-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>After the financially-struggling Sauber failed to pay him on time, therefore breaching its contract, it is rumoured Hungary could be Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s last race for the Swiss team.<\/p>\n<p>Where the German might be headed is unknown, but the latest news hints at who his replacement might be.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Frijns, the highly-rated 21-year-old and Sauber&#8217;s reserve driver, has lost his GP2 seat at the Hilmer team, despite winning the Spanish race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that was it then,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.\u00a0 &#8220;No money no drive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winning championships is not enough these days,&#8221; added Frijns, the reigning Formula Renault 3.5 title winner.<\/p>\n<p>It is rumoured German Hulkenberg, after leaving Sauber, might simply sit out the rest of 2013 before making his next move.<\/p>\n<p>If it was up to 1964 world champion John Surtees, he would already be at McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not saying Perez isn&#8217;t talented,&#8221; he told the Daily Mail, &#8220;but it was too early for him to go into such an environment at McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know who I would have had there &#8212; Nico Hulkenberg.\u00a0 He has served his time and would have made a good match with Jenson,&#8221; said Surtees.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of events has come together to form formula one&#8217;s very latest hot rumour. After the financially-struggling Sauber failed to pay him on time, therefore breaching its contract, it is rumoured Hungary could be Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s last race for the Swiss team. Where the German might be headed is unknown, but the latest news &#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":[5262,5340,153,380,5284,448,4105,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18864"}],"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=18864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18865,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18864\/revisions\/18865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}