{"id":20544,"date":"2013-12-16T06:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T11:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20544"},"modified":"2013-12-16T06:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T11:59:58","slug":"potential-buyers-visit-saubers-hinwil-hq-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/potential-buyers-visit-saubers-hinwil-hq-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential buyers visit Sauber&#8217;s Hinwil HQ &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber is still scrambling to secure its future, according to the latest reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss team has now announced that Adrian Sutil is replacing the Force India-bound Nico Hulkenberg in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But Sauber said late on Friday: &#8220;The second driver will be announced at a later date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what happened to the much-vaunted Russian rescue deal, where the Russian teen Sergey Sirotkin was set to be in the Swiss-made cockpit?<\/p>\n<p>According to the well-connected correspondent for the Swiss newspaper Blick, Roger Benoit, Sauber is now looking into working with a new group of investors.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, the unnamed group visited Sauber&#8217;s Hinwil factory last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want to take over the team and install new management,&#8221; said Benoit.<\/p>\n<p>Benoit revealed that, a year ago, an investor group headed by 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen expressed interest in buying Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kimi was just the middleman,&#8221; confirmed team founder Peter Sauber, who brought the Finn into F1 as a rookie in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber is still scrambling to secure its future, according to the latest reports. The Swiss team has now announced that Adrian Sutil is replacing the Force India-bound Nico Hulkenberg in 2014. But Sauber said late on Friday: &#8220;The second driver will be announced at a later date.&#8221; So what happened to the much-vaunted Russian rescue &#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":[5311,128,5262,5340,152,243,114,4564],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20544"}],"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=20544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20545,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20544\/revisions\/20545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}