{"id":20762,"date":"2014-01-22T07:09:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20762"},"modified":"2014-01-22T07:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T12:09:43","slug":"sirotkins-place-at-sauber-now-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sirotkins-place-at-sauber-now-in-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirotkin&#8217;s place at Sauber now in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Sirotkin&#8217;s place inside the Sauber team has been called into doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Just before Christmas, although initially in the Swiss team&#8217;s racing plans for 2014, Sauber said Russian teen Sirotkin would only be &#8220;its test driver&#8221; this season.<\/p>\n<p>But with news of the related Russian rescue deal having gone silent, it surprised some observers this week when Sauber said the McGregor-sponsored Dutchman Giedo van der Garde would in fact be &#8220;its test and reserve driver&#8221; in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The statement made no mention at all of Sirotkin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happens now with Sirotkin?&#8221; Roger Benoit, the veteran F1 correspondent for the well-connected Swiss newspaper Blick, wondered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where is there room now for Sergey Sirotkin?&#8221; agreed Mathias Brunner, a writer for German language Speed Week.<\/p>\n<p>Sauber has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Sirotkin&#8217;s place inside the Sauber team has been called into doubt. Just before Christmas, although initially in the Swiss team&#8217;s racing plans for 2014, Sauber said Russian teen Sirotkin would only be &#8220;its test driver&#8221; this season. But with news of the related Russian rescue deal having gone silent, it surprised some observers this &#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":[5262,5340,2286,114,4564],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762"}],"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=20762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20763,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762\/revisions\/20763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}