{"id":5799,"date":"2010-05-28T07:11:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2010-05-28T07:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T11:07:15","slug":"rumour-todts-art-to-merge-with-sauber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rumour-todts-art-to-merge-with-sauber\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour &#8211; Todt&#8217;s ART to merge with Sauber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French GP2 team ART could merge with an existing team rather than go it alone in formula one next year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The outfit headed by FIA president Jean Todt&#8217;s son Nicolas has applied to debut in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>But Spain&#8217;s El Mundo Deportivo reports that ART is also looking at other options, including merging with the under-financed former BMW-owned outfit Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>The move would make Spanish hopeful Epsilon Euskadi, already with a state of the art headquarters, wind tunnel and proven Le Mans car-making abilities, the favourite to fill the 13th team slot next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have arguments that are difficult to refute,&#8221; said Epsilon&#8217;s Joan Villadelprat.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, El Mundo said Peter Sauber&#8217;s ambition for his struggling Hinwil based squad is to &#8220;find a strong and stable partner and again retreat into the background&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French GP2 team ART could merge with an existing team rather than go it alone in formula one next year.<\/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":[1610,5262,5261,5340,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799"}],"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=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}