{"id":21301,"date":"2014-03-18T07:16:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T11:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21301"},"modified":"2014-03-18T07:16:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T11:16:59","slug":"sauber-patient-amid-slow-moving-russian-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-patient-amid-slow-moving-russian-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber patient amid slow-moving Russian deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sauber insists its Russian rescue deal remains on track.<\/p>\n

Originally set to feature the teen Sergey Sirotkin on the 2014 grid, talk of the Swiss team’s Russian buy-in has now quietened in the F1 paddock.<\/p>\n

\"Monisha-Kaltenborn-2\"Asked if the deal is still on track, team boss and co-owner Monisha Kaltenborn insisted: “Yes.\u00a0 We are continuing to move in that direction.”<\/p>\n

She told the Russian website f1news.ru that “active negotiations” are currently taking place with Russian companies.<\/p>\n

“The lesson we have learned in recent months is that when you are dealing with organisations such as this, you have to understand their notions of time.<\/p>\n

“We also need to understand that in these negotiations, sometimes other circumstances that are maybe more important to these companies than formula one will interfere,” Kaltenborn added.<\/p>\n

So while an earlier priority was to quickly get Sirotkin a super license and push him onto the grid, Kaltenborn said the 18-year-old is now more focused on the Formula Renault 3.5 series.<\/p>\n

“At the moment, everything is going according to plan,” she said.\u00a0 “He has a seat with Fortec, I am sure he can get great results, and then we’ll think about the next step.”<\/p>\n

A more immediate priority for Sauber is to improve its 2014 car, after the Ferrari-powered machine struggled badly on the straights at Albert Park.<\/p>\n

Switzerland’s Blick newspaper said the car is significantly overweight and underpowered.<\/p>\n

“Last year we managed to turn the corner,” Kaltenborn said, “and we will do it again.”<\/p>\n

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Sauber insists its Russian rescue deal remains on track. Originally set to feature the teen Sergey Sirotkin on the 2014 grid, talk of the Swiss team’s Russian buy-in has now quietened in the F1 paddock. Asked if the deal is still on track, team boss and co-owner Monisha Kaltenborn insisted: “Yes.\u00a0 We are continuing to …<\/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":[5262,5340,316,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301"}],"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=21301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21302,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301\/revisions\/21302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}