{"id":4508,"date":"2010-04-16T07:12:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2010-04-16T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:12:40","slug":"de-la-rosa-not-worried-about-rumours-of-losing-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/de-la-rosa-not-worried-about-rumours-of-losing-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"De la Rosa not worried about rumours of losing seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Pedro de la Rosa has played down rumours he could soon lose his Sauber race seat.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After several years as McLaren&#8217;s test driver, the Spanish 39-year-old was drafted in for his experience by Peter Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>But Sauber, 66, recently expressed doubts about the Swiss team&#8217;s 2010 lineup, and particularly the time it is taking de la Rosa to reacclimatise to racing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is best to ask Peter Sauber but it (Sauber&#8217;s comments) is something that does not worry me,&#8221; de la Rosa is quoted as saying by Spain&#8217;s AS newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very calm, I want to be here for as long as possible and I want to improve &#8212; that is my concern.\u00a0 Making the car faster (is important), not getting into rumours that just waste time,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>De la Rosa denies that he is struggling at the wheel of the C29.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I took three days to get back into it, when I said that I was a little rusty.\u00a0 From then I feel very good and that I have been driving well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What has happened is we have had very poor reliability, but that is down to isolated cases, so I&#8217;m concentrating on my work and on getting points when we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It has been suggested that Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado, with some big sponsors in tow, would be first in line for de la Rosa&#8217;s seat, but the Spaniard dismissed it as &#8220;just a rumour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de la Rosa has played down rumours he could soon lose his Sauber race seat.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,271,243,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508"}],"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=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4509,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions\/4509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}