{"id":10783,"date":"2011-01-29T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10783"},"modified":"2011-01-29T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T14:50:39","slug":"mercedes-figure-hints-no-test-return-for-heidfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-figure-hints-no-test-return-for-heidfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes figure hints no test return for Heidfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is talking to potential candidates to become the team&#8217;s test and reserve driver in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Before returning to the grid last year with Sauber, Nick Heidfeld started 2010 in the third role at Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>But the marque&#8217;s head of marketing Joachim Schmidt suggested that a non-German will be appointed for this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We already have two German drivers,&#8221; he told the Bietigheimer Zeitung newspaper, referring to the unchanged race line-up including Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment we are in conversation with potential candidates,&#8221; added Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes had a difficult first year away from long-time partner McLaren, finishing the constructors&#8217; championship just fourth despite having Michael Schumacher on board.<\/p>\n<p>But Schmidt insisted: &#8220;The financial burden, compared to when we were partnered with McLaren, is clearly lower.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For us, because of the advertising revenue and the money from FOM, it is economically more attractive than before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For this reason, we have the backing of our workforce for our formula one engagement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is talking to potential candidates to become the team&#8217;s test and reserve driver in 2011. Before returning to the grid last year with Sauber, Nick Heidfeld started 2010 in the third role at Mercedes. But the marque&#8217;s head of marketing Joachim Schmidt suggested that a non-German will be appointed for this season. &#8220;We already &#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":[5262,5340,34,92,98,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783"}],"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=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10784,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions\/10784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}