{"id":10976,"date":"2011-02-10T06:49:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10976"},"modified":"2011-02-10T06:49:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T11:49:58","slug":"haug-happy-to-see-heidfeld-push-for-race-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/haug-happy-to-see-heidfeld-push-for-race-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Haug happy to see Heidfeld push for race seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is happy to see Nick Heidfeld return to F1 with a rival team in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>After losing his BMW seat, the German kicked off last season as Mercedes&#8217; reserve driver, later becoming the Pirelli test driver before returning to the grid with Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>Once again for 2011, the 33-year-old was facing the prospect of a season on the sidelines, but he was believed close to agreeing to return to his reserve role with Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, Heidfeld will be testing the new Renault at Jerez this weekend, in contention to replace his injured former BMW teammate Robert Kubica.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes&#8217; motor racing boss Norbert Haug told Auto Motor und Sport that, due to the German marque not having a race seat to offer, he will not stand in Heidfeld&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Nick has the opportunity to race somewhere, we are the last ones to throw stones in his path,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is happy to see Nick Heidfeld return to F1 with a rival team in 2011. After losing his BMW seat, the German kicked off last season as Mercedes&#8217; reserve driver, later becoming the Pirelli test driver before returning to the grid with Sauber. Once again for 2011, the 33-year-old was facing the prospect of &#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":[5262,5340,98,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976"}],"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=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10977,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions\/10977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}