{"id":9007,"date":"2010-10-15T07:19:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9007"},"modified":"2010-10-15T07:19:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T11:19:10","slug":"kobayashi-ready-to-be-2011-team-leader-sauber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kobayashi-ready-to-be-2011-team-leader-sauber\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobayashi ready to be 2011 &#8216;team leader&#8217; &#8211; Sauber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sauber has admitted his ideal driver constellation would be a promising young rookie alongside a steadier hand.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, the Swiss team&#8217;s lineup is fiery Japanese newcomer Kamui Kobayashi next to the dependable veteran of 169 grands prix Nick Heidfeld.<\/p>\n<p>But the latter German is currently searching for a job for 2011, after Sauber signed the Telmex-sponsored Mexican GP2 driver Sergio Perez.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think he has great potential and is very fast,&#8221; Sauber said at his team&#8217;s Hinwil headquarters this week, where the 20-year-old Perez was having his first seat fitting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But of course there are no guarantees,&#8221; admitted the 67-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Swiss daily Blick, Sauber was asked whether sitting two young newcomers in next year&#8217;s C30s is too great a risk for the team still recovering from the loss of BMW ownership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be better to have an experienced driver beside a younger one,&#8221; he admitted, &#8220;but Kobayashi has matured and next year can take over the role of team leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Sauber has admitted his ideal driver constellation would be a promising young rookie alongside a steadier hand. Presently, the Swiss team&#8217;s lineup is fiery Japanese newcomer Kamui Kobayashi next to the dependable veteran of 169 grands prix Nick Heidfeld. But the latter German is currently searching for a job for 2011, after Sauber signed &#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":[5262,5340,97,243],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007"}],"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=9007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9008,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions\/9008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}