{"id":8562,"date":"2010-09-24T07:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T11:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2010-09-24T07:14:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T11:14:38","slug":"rumours-sauber-toro-rosso-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rumours-sauber-toro-rosso-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumours &#8211; Sauber, Toro Rosso for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to rumours in the Singapore paddock, the Toro Rosso and Sauber teams could be set for new ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The Basler Zeitung newspaper claims Nick Heidfeld&#8217;s new tenure at Sauber could be short-lived because Mexican GP2 driver Sergio Perez stands a good chance of becoming Kamui Kobayashi&#8217;s 2011 teammate.<\/p>\n<p>The rumours linking the Swiss team with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, who sponsors Perez through his Telmex company, have been circulating for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Sauber has already signed a Mexican, the teenaged Esteban Gutierrez, as its 2011 reserve driver.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Swiss newspaper Le Matin reports that Dietrich Mateschitz wants to sell Red Bull&#8217;s second formula one team Toro Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the Austrian billionaire stands to make a handsome profit from the deal, because after buying Minardi for $40 million in 2006, the Faenza based team is now be worth three times that much.<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Villeneuve\/Durango was mentioned as a possible buyer.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to rumours in the Singapore paddock, the Toro Rosso and Sauber teams could be set for new ownership. The Basler Zeitung newspaper claims Nick Heidfeld&#8217;s new tenure at Sauber could be short-lived because Mexican GP2 driver Sergio Perez stands a good chance of becoming Kamui Kobayashi&#8217;s 2011 teammate. The rumours linking the Swiss team &#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":[5262,5340,114,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562"}],"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=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8563,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions\/8563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}