{"id":1851,"date":"2017-07-17T05:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2017-07-17T05:35:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:35:03","slug":"red-bull-denies-sainz-switch-rumours-will-consider-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2017\/07\/17\/red-bull-denies-sainz-switch-rumours-will-consider-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull denies Carlos Sainz Jr switch rumours but will consider a release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Red Bull Racing<\/strong> has hit back at the rumour that<strong> Carlos Sainz Jr<\/strong> will be leaving <strong>Toro Rosso<\/strong> to join<strong> Renault<\/strong> for the <strong>Hungarian Grand Prix<\/strong>, as reported by Germany&#8217;s Auto Bild. This rumour suggested that Sainz had severed his ties with Red Bull and would replace <strong>Jolyon Palmer<\/strong> at the Renault team, thus paving the way for <strong>Pierre Gasly<\/strong> to join Toro Rosso.<\/p>\n<h2>Red Bull denies Carlos Sainz Jr switch rumours but will consider a release<\/h2>\n<p>Amidst these rumours, Sainz Jr responded: &#8220;It would be very strange if I had not been told about this if it was happening. The last thing I heard was that I was a Toro Rosso driver,&#8221; he told Movistar. Renault Managing\u00a0Director, <strong>Cyril Abiteboul<\/strong>, also denied these rumours:\u00a0&#8220;Sainz will definitely not replace Palmer in Hungary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <strong>Dr Helmut Marko<\/strong>, <strong>Christian Horner<\/strong>, and <strong>Franz Tost<\/strong> sound open to the idea of releasing Sainz to another team, providing that the team is able to pay the selected buyout fee.\u00a0&#8220;A lot is written in the media, but Carlos will be with Toro Rosso in Hungary,&#8221; said Marko. &#8220;And I am currently assuming that he will drive with us for the rest of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to my current knowledge, Carlos Sainz is driving for us in Hungary,&#8221; said Tost, the Toro Rosso team boss. &#8220;Carlos has a contract that expires in two years,&#8221; added Horner of Red Bull Racing. &#8220;If some other team wants him and wants to make us a serious offer, we are ready to consider it. But I doubt this will happen by Hungary.&#8221;<br \/>\nMain Photo<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/815546880\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/815546880?et=bLrNPZEbR5JkPr4XCWpUAA&amp;tld=co.uk&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=QJfpvLJuNXUcvvgVjhNtJooE6mmVd6KXjKi-u8v_VcI=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull Racing has hit back at the rumour that Carlos Sainz Jr will be leaving Toro Rosso to join Renault for the Hungarian Grand Prix, as reported by Germany&#8217;s Auto Bild. This rumour suggested that Sainz had severed his ties with Red Bull and would replace Jolyon Palmer at the Renault team, thus paving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":1852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,506,23,78,135,279],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-2017-formula-1-season","tag-carlos-sainz-jr","tag-formula-1","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-renault","tag-toro-rosso"],"modified_by":"Chris Soulsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}