{"id":19071,"date":"2013-08-24T07:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19071"},"modified":"2013-08-24T07:53:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T11:53:53","slug":"hulkenberg-finally-paid-by-struggling-sauber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hulkenberg-finally-paid-by-struggling-sauber\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulkenberg finally paid by struggling Sauber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite protestations to the contrary, Sauber&#8217;s struggle for survival is not over, according to the latest German-language reports.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" 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\" \/>The Russian rescue deal had appeared back on track on Friday, as teen driver Sergey Sirotkin confirmed rumours he has now signed a race deal for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But Welt newspaper said the flow of money from Russia has actually been barely more than a trickle.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting from Spa, Bild correspondents Nicola Pohl and Lennart Wermke referred to a promised EUR 22 million injection, in exchange for Sirotkin&#8217;s race seat.<\/p>\n<p>But the reports said only EUR 3 million actually materialised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Sauber, the situation is dramatic,&#8221; said Pohl and Wermke.\u00a0 &#8220;The Russian rescue is probably off the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, there are also conflicting reports.\u00a0 Auto Motor und Sport claims team driver Nico Hulkenberg, who has been waiting to be paid all season, has now received the first instalment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got some money,&#8221; confirmed his manager Werner Heinz.\u00a0 &#8220;At Sauber things are looking up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The German report also said Sauber has travelled to Belgium with a new front wing and is tinkering once again with a passive double-DRS system, indicating that funds for technical development are flowing once again.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite protestations to the contrary, Sauber&#8217;s struggle for survival is not over, according to the latest German-language reports. The Russian rescue deal had appeared back on track on Friday, as teen driver Sergey Sirotkin confirmed rumours he has now signed a race deal for 2014. But Welt newspaper said the flow of money from Russia &#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":[5262,5340,448,1767,4564],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071"}],"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=19071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19072,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions\/19072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}