{"id":1208,"date":"2010-01-05T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2010-01-05T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:55:05","slug":"mercedes-not-confirming-heidfeld-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-not-confirming-heidfeld-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes not confirming Heidfeld reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Norbert Haug on Tuesday declined to confirm reports that Nick Heidfeld has been offered the test and reserve role at Mercedes GP for 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has only been basic contact with Nick, which is what I have had for several years,&#8221; the German marque&#8217;s competition director told the German news agency DPA. &#8220;We did talk to Nick about possibilities with Mercedes GP as well as McLaren-Mercedes,&#8221; Haug added.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Heidfeld, 32, wrote on the blog on his official website that Michael Schumacher&#8217;s decision to return to F1 with Mercedes this season had &#8220;affected me directly&#8221;. &#8220;It&#8217;s relevant because there is less space (on the grid),&#8221; the veteran of 169 grands prix added. &#8220;But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m naive when I say that, especially after the past few weeks, the unexpected can happen. &#8220;We are now looking forward and are focused on the best long-term option for my future.\u00a0 I hope that in the coming weeks I can announce something concrete about my plans,&#8221; said Heidfeld.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9RIF\/GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug on Tuesday declined to confirm reports that Nick Heidfeld has been offered the test and reserve role at Mercedes GP for 2010. \u00a0 &#8220;There has only been basic contact with Nick, which is what I have had for several years,&#8221; the German marque&#8217;s competition director told the German news agency DPA. &#8220;We did &#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":[5262,5284,34,92,98,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"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=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}