{"id":19266,"date":"2013-09-12T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19266"},"modified":"2013-09-12T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T11:11:08","slug":"sainz-jr-admits-no-toro-rosso-talks-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sainz-jr-admits-no-toro-rosso-talks-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainz jr admits no Toro Rosso talks for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Sainz jr has admitted he is not a serious candidate to replace the Red Bull-bound Daniel Ricciardo at Toro Rosso next year.<\/p>\n<p>With Antonio Felix da Costa struggling in the Renault &#8216;world series&#8217;, and Felipe Nasr now ruled out of the running, it had been suggested the impressive teen Spaniard Sainz might be in pole position to succeed Ricciardo.<\/p>\n<p>But Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost this week said leaping straight from GP3 would be &#8220;too big a jump&#8221; for 19-year-old Sainz, who he also considers too young for F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am staying on the ground,&#8221; Sainz, whose father and namesake is the world rally legend, is quoted by Speed Week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s no secret that formula one is my big goal, and I&#8217;m moving closer step by step.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But at the moment I&#8217;m thinking of my last race in GP3, and beyond that three races in the Formula Renault 3.5 and also Macau,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sainz said he has had talks with Red Bull&#8217;s influential Dr Helmut Marko recently, &#8220;but it was all about my assignments in Formula Renault and Macau&#8221;, he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no mention of formula one,&#8221; added Sainz.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Sainz jr has admitted he is not a serious candidate to replace the Red Bull-bound Daniel Ricciardo at Toro Rosso next year. With Antonio Felix da Costa struggling in the Renault &#8216;world series&#8217;, and Felipe Nasr now ruled out of the running, it had been suggested the impressive teen Spaniard Sainz might be 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":[3558,1096,1628,5262,5340,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19266"}],"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=19266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19267,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19266\/revisions\/19267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}