{"id":8357,"date":"2010-09-13T06:58:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T10:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2010-09-13T06:58:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T10:58:32","slug":"heidfeld-to-replace-de-la-rosa-from-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/heidfeld-to-replace-de-la-rosa-from-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidfeld to replace de la Rosa from Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday at Monza was Pedro de la Rosa&#8217;s last grand prix with the Sauber team in 2010, according to a Swiss report.<\/p>\n<p>The Blick newspaper, with close links to the Hinwil based team&#8217;s chief Peter Sauber, said Nick Heidfeld will definitely be driving the Ferrari-powered C29 from now on, starting with the Singapore night race in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The news will almost certainly result in Nick Heidfeld, who this year was formerly Mercedes&#8217; reserve driver, relinquishing his new role as test driver for the 2011 tyre supplier Pirelli.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the third Sauber tenure for German Heidfeld, 33, who also drove for the Swiss team in 2000-2003 and 2006-2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This makes sense,&#8221; wrote veteran Blick correspondent Roger Benoit, &#8220;because Sauber wants to make up the 20 point arrears to Williams, in order to finish the world championship in seventh position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Compared with rookie teammate Kamui Kobayashi&#8217;s 21 points, long-time McLaren test driver de la Rosa has scored just 6 points on his return to the F1 grid this season.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday at Monza was Pedro de la Rosa&#8217;s last grand prix with the Sauber team in 2010, according to a Swiss report. The Blick newspaper, with close links to the Hinwil based team&#8217;s chief Peter Sauber, said Nick Heidfeld will definitely be driving the Ferrari-powered C29 from now on, starting with the Singapore night race &#8230;<\/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":[5262,5340,384,271,243,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357"}],"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=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}