{"id":3020,"date":"2010-03-10T07:32:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T12:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2010-03-10T07:32:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T12:32:03","slug":"no-major-backer-for-sauber-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-major-backer-for-sauber-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"No major backer for Sauber in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Contrary to earlier rumours, it appears that Sauber will in fact not contest this weekend&#8217;s 2010 season opener with a new major sponsor.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It had been speculated that talks with a significant backer could result in a deal to be unveiled in Bahrain, but team boss Peter Sauber reports that the bodywork of the Ferrari-powered C29 is to remain mostly blank for now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the withdrawal of BMW and the takeover of the team, the time was simply too short for us to find a partner or principal sponsor,&#8221; the 66-year-old told Switzerland&#8217;s 20 Minuten.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We only had confirmation of the 13th team entry in December so concrete negotiations (with backers) could only start very late.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nevertheless, the 2010 season for us is guaranteed, even though the more sponsors we have, the more we can invest in the development of the car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sauber said the team&#8217;s drivers Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi are not bringing any sponsors to their seats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neither of them has brought money.\u00a0 I hired them only because of their achievements,&#8221; said the Swiss.<\/p>\n<p>But when asked if he thinks Sauber will be able to tap into the Spanish and Japanese markets, he answered: &#8220;I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Spanish and Japanese markets are lucrative, although there has also been the impact of the global financial crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to earlier rumours, it appears that Sauber will in fact not contest this weekend&#8217;s 2010 season opener with a new major sponsor. \u00a0 It had been speculated that talks with a significant backer could result in a deal to be unveiled in Bahrain, but team boss Peter Sauber reports that the bodywork of the &#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":[5262,243,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020"}],"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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}