{"id":5389,"date":"2010-05-15T06:22:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2010-05-15T06:22:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:22:44","slug":"sauber-baffled-by-constant-driver-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-baffled-by-constant-driver-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber baffled by constant driver rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sauber has denied recent rumours and reports suggesting the seats of his Swiss team&#8217;s drivers are in doubt.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->With Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi failing to score a single point so far in 2010, it was rumoured Sauber could replace them with drivers who at least bring sponsorship to the mostly blank-liveried car.<\/p>\n<p>But team founder and boss Sauber, 66, is quoted in Monaco by the EFE news agency: &#8220;I do not understand why this (claim) is repeated again and again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Spanish grand prix was the first time we were able to give the drivers a competitive car, which is very important for their confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a dismal start to the season, the Swiss believes Sauber&#8217;s fortunes are now beginning to turn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that in Spain we made significant progress and took two steps forward; something that was necessary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sauber also revealed that, after several steps of development, the C29&#8217;s F-duct system is now &#8220;working well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sauber has denied recent rumours and reports suggesting the seats of his Swiss team&#8217;s drivers are in doubt.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,97,271,243],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389"}],"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=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}