{"id":2110,"date":"2010-02-04T07:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:06:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:06:36","slug":"de-la-rosa-rules-out-wins-podiums-for-sauber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/de-la-rosa-rules-out-wins-podiums-for-sauber\/","title":{"rendered":"De la Rosa rules out wins, podiums for Sauber"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Although outpaced only by the dominant Ferrari this week, Sauber&#8217;s new C29 car is not a podium contender.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is the admission of the Swiss team&#8217;s veteran Spanish driver Pedro de la Rosa, following suspicions that Sauber have been running low fuel at Valencia in a bid to attract sponsors.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When asked by the Spanish press if he will be on the podium in 2010, the 38-year-old answered: &#8220;We will try, but it is not really possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a good car but the team is very small.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De la Rosa emphasised that Sauber, in the wake of BMW&#8217;s departure in every way except official title, is not in the championship fight with Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have impressed everyone,&#8221; he said of the Maranello-made F10&#8217;s debut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be realistic.\u00a0 Our aspirations are to calmly get the most points we can, not to win races,&#8221; added de la Rosa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It matters little that Ferrari are faster because our struggle is not with them, even though we are well positioned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although outpaced only by the dominant Ferrari this week, Sauber&#8217;s new C29 car is not a podium contender. \u00a0 That is the admission of the Swiss team&#8217;s veteran Spanish driver Pedro de la Rosa, following suspicions that Sauber have been running low fuel at Valencia in a bid to attract sponsors.<\/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":[559,5262,271,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110"}],"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=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}