{"id":19058,"date":"2013-08-23T07:25:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T11:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19058"},"modified":"2013-08-23T07:25:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T11:25:42","slug":"sirotkin-signs-2014-sauber-race-contract-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sirotkin-signs-2014-sauber-race-contract-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirotkin signs 2014 Sauber race contract &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Sirotkin has finally signed a real contract to race a Sauber in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Monisha-Kaltenborn-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Monisha-Kaltenborn-3.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Before the Russian teen&#8217;s visit to Hinwil this week, Sirotkin&#8217;s race seat was a mere ambition as part of the Russian rescue deal.<\/p>\n<p>But Austria&#8217;s Osterreich newspaper reports that a real contract has been signed now.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the information was confirmed at Spa-Francorchamps on Thursday by Sauber team boss Monisha Kaltenborn.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Der Spiegel also reported from Belgium: &#8220;Sauber has taken the 17-year-old Russian Sergey Sirotkin under contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kaltenborn said Sauber, currently fielding German Nico Hulkenberg and Mexican Esteban Gutierrez, is yet to decide who Sirotkin&#8217;s teammate will be.<\/p>\n<p>Hulkenberg, linked with Felipe Massa&#8217;s Ferrari seat, admitted he is talking to &#8220;some teams&#8221; about 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he has ruled out staying at Sauber in 2014, he told Speed Week: &#8220;I don&#8217;t rule anybody out today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Sirotkin has finally signed a real contract to race a Sauber in 2014. Before the Russian teen&#8217;s visit to Hinwil this week, Sirotkin&#8217;s race seat was a mere ambition as part of the Russian rescue deal. But Austria&#8217;s Osterreich newspaper reports that a real contract has been signed now. The report said the information &#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":[2223,5262,5340,316,448,1767,4564,90],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19058"}],"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=19058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19059,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19058\/revisions\/19059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}