{"id":1346,"date":"2015-04-24T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2015-04-24T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:40:16","slug":"sa-silva-completes-zele-racing-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"Sa Silva completes Zele Racing line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LSS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1264 alignleft\" alt=\"LSS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LSS-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LSS-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LSS-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LSS.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>The Angolan ace returns to the AutoGP grid for 2015 with Zele<!--more--><\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Zele Racing will field three cars at the AutoGP season opener in Budapest next week as Luis Sa Silva has rejoined the team.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The 24-year-old African, who finished runner-up for Zele Racing in last season\u2019s closer at Estoril, will team up with Antonio Pizzonia and Andres Mendez.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8222;We have been working with Luis for quite some time. His performance in Estoril was outstanding, so we are keen on extending the partnership for Budapest,\u201d team boss Michael Zele said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201cIt would of course be great to have him on board for the entire season and we are keeping our fingers crossed that he can settle a deal with his sponsors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Sa Silva, who finished second in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge in 2009 and in the Formula Pilota China two years later, is excited to be back with the Austrian outfit again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201cI am delighted Zele Racing gives me the chance to race in Budapest. We are still negotiating with our major sponsors to secure an all-season deal. But if I do well in Hungary, things should probably be easier\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The 2015 AutoGP season opens with the race weekend in Hungary on May 2, where Zele Racing finished runner-up last year and also clocked the fastest lap of the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Angolan ace returns to the AutoGP grid for 2015 with Zele<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1346\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}