{"id":25928,"date":"2014-11-29T06:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T11:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=25928"},"modified":"2014-11-29T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T11:40:31","slug":"toro-rosso-confirms-sainz-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/toro-rosso-confirms-sainz-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Toro Rosso confirms Sainz for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toro Rosso late on Friday confirmed reports Carlos Sainz jr will complete the Red Bull-owned junior team&#8217;s 2015 driver lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Spaniard and new Formula Renault 3.5 champion will replace the Italian based team&#8217;s driver of the past three seasons, Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since I have been part of Red Bull&#8217;s young driver programme, this has been my aim and I want to thank Red Bull for putting their faith in me,&#8221; Sainz, whose father and namesake is the world rally legend, said.<\/p>\n<p>His teammate will be 17-year-old Dutchman and fellow F1 rookie, Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toro Rosso late on Friday confirmed reports Carlos Sainz jr will complete the Red Bull-owned junior team&#8217;s 2015 driver lineup. The 20-year-old Spaniard and new Formula Renault 3.5 champion will replace the Italian based team&#8217;s driver of the past three seasons, Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne. &#8220;Ever since I have been part of Red Bull&#8217;s young driver &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[3558,5262,5340,1896,5063,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928"}],"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=25928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25929,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928\/revisions\/25929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}