{"id":3114,"date":"2010-03-13T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2010-03-13T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T12:46:51","slug":"points-villas-sponsors-and-tired-eyes-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/points-villas-sponsors-and-tired-eyes-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Points, villas, sponsors and tired eyes in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Peter Sauber has agreed to pay a modest points bonus to permanent employees of his Swiss F1 team in 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even without a major sponsor in the wake of BMW&#8217;s withdrawal as owner, the 66-year-old Swiss told Blick newspaper that he will pay bonuses in line with F1&#8217;s previous points system.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is believed the bonus is 25 Swiss francs (less than EUR20) per point.<\/p>\n<p>In total contrast, Michael Schumacher&#8217;s accommodation in Bahrain this weekend &#8211; a private villa with a private beach &#8211; has a personal butler at a cost of some EUR6000 per night.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the logos of the Monster energy drink were added to the helmets of Schumacher and his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg ahead of Saturday morning practice.<\/p>\n<p>And there are more than a few tired eyes in the HRT garage on Saturday morning, with reports that the race team worked so hard to prepare Bruno Senna and Karun Chandhok&#8217;s cars overnight that they did not bother returning to their hotel to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish reports said some members of the new Spanish team have not slept in up to four nights, including its boss Colin Kolles.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sauber has agreed to pay a modest points bonus to permanent employees of his Swiss F1 team in 2010. \u00a0 Even without a major sponsor in the wake of BMW&#8217;s withdrawal as owner, the 66-year-old Swiss told Blick newspaper that he will pay bonuses in line with F1&#8217;s previous points system.<\/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],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114"}],"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=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}