{"id":4234,"date":"2010-04-08T06:57:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T10:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:58:18","slug":"red-bull-to-consider-f1-drivers-futures-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-to-consider-f1-drivers-futures-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull to consider F1 drivers&#8217; futures &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A meeting later this year will discuss the immediate futures of up to three Red Bull-backed F1 drivers.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Swiss newspaper Blick said Toro Rosso&#8217;s Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, as well as the main Red Bull team&#8217;s Mark Webber, will be the subject of discussion between Helmut Marko and Dietrich Mateschitz in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that even though Buemi, 21, is highly regarded by team boss Franz Tost &#8211; while the youngster Alguersuari showed great improvement in Malaysia last weekend &#8211; their futures are not guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Red Bull consider the Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who is Red Bull Racing&#8217;s reserve driver this year, is ready to step into a race seat.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he expects to keep scoring points now that he has broken his 11-race drought, Spaniard Alguersuari said after Malaysia: &#8220;Definitely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is still a lot to come from my side.\u00a0 I am expecting a lot for the second half of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Tost told Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport: &#8220;Alguersuari is three to five tenths slower than Buemi.\u00a0 For him (Alguersuari), the majority of the circuits are still new.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we can see him coming slowly closer to Buemi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting later this year will discuss the immediate futures of up to three Red Bull-backed F1 drivers.<\/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":[1096,262,5262,5261,5340,910,641,382,129,261],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234"}],"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=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}