{"id":8363,"date":"2010-09-13T21:56:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2010-09-13T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:56:30","slug":"de-la-rosa-to-replace-heidfeld-as-pirelli-tester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/de-la-rosa-to-replace-heidfeld-as-pirelli-tester\/","title":{"rendered":"De la Rosa to replace Heidfeld as Pirelli tester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de la Rosa is set to replace Nick Heidfeld as Pirelli&#8217;s permanent tyre development tester.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that German Heidfeld, who left his role as Mercedes&#8217; reserve driver in order to take up the Pirelli job, is now set to immediately replace de la Rosa in the Sauber race seat.<\/p>\n<p>Heidfeld, 33, has already done two Pirelli tyre tests, and Auto Motor und Sport reports that his last outing in the role will be this week in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Testing veteran de la Rosa is an ideal replacement, with seven years of recent experience as McLaren&#8217;s main and highly respected third driver.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport claims there were moves to replace de la Rosa with Heidfeld as long ago as Silverstone, but Sauber gave the Spaniard a stay of execution because of a good performance at Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Peter Sauber will not be commenting about drivers,&#8221; a spokesman for the Hinwil based team said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de la Rosa is set to replace Nick Heidfeld as Pirelli&#8217;s permanent tyre development tester. It is expected that German Heidfeld, who left his role as Mercedes&#8217; reserve driver in order to take up the Pirelli job, is now set to immediately replace de la Rosa in the Sauber race seat. Heidfeld, 33, has &#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":[5262,5340,98,271,243,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363"}],"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=8363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8364,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions\/8364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}