{"id":1124,"date":"2009-12-23T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2010-01-03T19:50:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T00:50:46","slug":"schumacher-signs-mercedes-contract-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-signs-mercedes-contract-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher signs Mercedes contract for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher has now signed a contract to return to formula one next year with Mercedes.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper and the BBC in Britain say the seven time world champion, who turns 41 in early January, has signed a one-year deal. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bild, valuing the contract at 7 million euros, said the German&#8217;s decision is the &#8220;biggest comeback in sports history&#8221;. Schumacher reportedly signed the deal at Brackley, with an announcement to be made on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>His spokeswoman Sabine Kehm would not comment, but Schumacher&#8217;s friend Sebastian Vettel said he was happy to hear the news. &#8220;This is his own decision for his own reasons but it makes me happy that he is going to be there. I hope he is still fit enough for his age to ride along with us,&#8221; the Red Bull driver is quoted as saying by RTL Nachtmagazin. Bild said Mercedes is seeking special permission so that Schumacher can test the Brawn car in January.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9RIF\/GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has now signed a contract to return to formula one next year with Mercedes. \u00a0 Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper and the BBC in Britain say the seven time world champion, who turns 41 in early January, has signed a one-year deal.<\/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":[5262,34,92,250,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"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=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}