{"id":4803,"date":"2010-04-27T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2010-04-27T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:42:11","slug":"sauber-needs-sponsors-to-boost-2010-car-de-la-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-needs-sponsors-to-boost-2010-car-de-la-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber needs sponsors to boost 2010 car &#8211; de la Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sauber needs some more sponsors to ensure the C29 car can be properly developed, Pedro de la Rosa insists.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Four races into the 2010 season and still with a mainly blank white livery, the formerly BMW-owned team is struggling with poor reliability and lagging pace.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Peter Sauber insists the team has a guaranteed budget to survive the 2010 season.<\/p>\n<p>But when asked about Sauber&#8217;s sponsorship situation, de la Rosa told the Swiss newspaper Blick: &#8220;This is a very important point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With each day it is more difficult to find backers for 2010, but without finances a normal development of the car is hardly possible,&#8221; said the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the car&#8217;s main problems, he answered: &#8220;There have been too many engine problems, and at the rear of the car something is not right &#8212; it is too unstable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We simply must believe in our abilities and those of our new technical boss James Key.\u00a0 And also that luck might be with us sometimes as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De la Rosa returned to a full time racing role in 2010 after several years as McLaren&#8217;s test driver, and it is already rumoured that Sauber is considering replacing him with a pay-driver on the basis of his initial form.<\/p>\n<p>He admits it has been a trying campaign so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew that with Sauber, difficult work was awaiting me.\u00a0 But after the tests in February I didn&#8217;t think it would be quite so hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauber needs some more sponsors to ensure the C29 car can be properly developed, Pedro de la Rosa insists.<\/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":[315,5262,5261,5340,801,271,243,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803"}],"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=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}