{"id":20672,"date":"2014-01-13T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20672"},"modified":"2014-01-13T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:03:10","slug":"disappointed-leimer-deserves-f1-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/disappointed-leimer-deserves-f1-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointed Leimer &#8216;deserves&#8217; F1 seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new reigning champion of the F1 support series GP2 will not move up to the pinnacle of motor sport in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Since the series&#8217; inception in 2005, every single champion became &#8211; or, in the case of Giorgio Pantano, had already been &#8211; a formula one driver.<\/p>\n<p>But that run stopped with the 2012 champion, when Davide Valsecchi carried the GP2 crown to a mere test role with Lotus.\u00a0 The Italian now looks set to bow out of formula one altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the 2013 champion, Swiss Fabio Leimer, is also missing out on F1.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss newspaper Blick speculates that his financial backing, formerly bolstered by Rainer Gantenbein, has now run dry.<\/p>\n<p>Leimer, 24, admits to being disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From a sporting point of view I deserve it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Blick correspondent Roger Benoit said Leimer is currently looking into potential moves to the German touring car series DTM, or the world sports car series.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new reigning champion of the F1 support series GP2 will not move up to the pinnacle of motor sport in 2014. Since the series&#8217; inception in 2005, every single champion became &#8211; or, in the case of Giorgio Pantano, had already been &#8211; a formula one driver. But that run stopped with the 2012 &#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":[5262,3338,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672"}],"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=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20673,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions\/20673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}