{"id":2015,"date":"2010-02-02T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2010-02-02T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:20:17","slug":"sauber-numbers-decided-points-tweak-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-numbers-decided-points-tweak-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber numbers decided, points tweak approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sauber&#8217;s drivers will wear the numbers 26 and 27 in 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite sticking with an unchanged official team name BMW Sauber F1 Team, resulting in the awkward FIA designation &#8216;BMW Sauber-Ferrari&#8217;, it was decided on Monday that the Hinwil based team should not receive the numbers 9 and 10.<\/p>\n<p>Given Toyota&#8217;s withdrawal and the fact that BMW-Sauber finished 2009 in sixth place, those numbers should in theory have been awarded to Sauber this year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But at the end of November, prior to Peter Sauber&#8217;s takeover, the FIA issued an entry list that did not feature the Swiss team.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, giving 9 and 10 at short notice to Sauber would have also resulted in altered race numbers for Renault, Force India, Toro Rosso and all four of F1&#8217;s new teams.<\/p>\n<p>Rubens Barrichello&#8217;s Williams FW32 at Valencia on Monday was already sporting the number 9.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was discussed at Monday&#8217;s Paris meeting of the F1 Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss newspaper Blick reported afterwards that Kamui Kobayashi will wear the number 26 in 2010, with Pedro de la Rosa to use the highest number in the field (27).<\/p>\n<p>Blick also said the tweaked points system, with winners receiving 25 points in 2010 compared to 18 points for second place, was approved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great F1 commission meeting,&#8221; wrote Lotus team boss Tony Fernandes on Twitter.\u00a0 &#8220;Lots of great ideas.\u00a0 Will be a great season.\u00a0 Lots of excitement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber&#8217;s drivers will wear the numbers 26 and 27 in 2010. \u00a0 Despite sticking with an unchanged official team name BMW Sauber F1 Team, resulting in the awkward FIA designation &#8216;BMW Sauber-Ferrari&#8217;, it was decided on Monday that the Hinwil based team should not receive the numbers 9 and 10. Given Toyota&#8217;s withdrawal and the &#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":[5262,5300,97,271,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"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=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}