{"id":12762,"date":"2011-06-13T19:31:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T23:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12762"},"modified":"2011-06-13T19:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T23:31:25","slug":"hamilton-met-with-red-bulls-horner-in-canada-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-met-with-red-bulls-horner-in-canada-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton met with Red Bull&#8217;s Horner in Canada &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton could be considering a switch from McLaren to Red Bull, according to new speculation on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Sapa-AFP wire reports said the 26-year-old world champion of 2008 met with Red Bull officials at the offices of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Team sources confirmed Hamilton spent 15 minutes during a &#8220;social visit&#8221; with Red Bull boss Christian Horner.<\/p>\n<p>The British driver&#8217;s McLaren contract runs until the end of next season.<\/p>\n<p>The new reports come after Hamilton this year joined the XIX Entertainment management company, with its chief Simon Fuller also handling the likes of David Beckham.<\/p>\n<p>The latest rumours are also hot on the heels of a difficult period for Hamilton, whose aggressive style and run-ins with FIA officials have triggered controversy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he has had an unfortunate run, but I think he has to be the racer he is, and I am sure he will be,&#8221; McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton was also defended by Norbert Haug, the motor sport vice-president for Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a good driver, he is a friend and I do not share the criticism that is on him.\u00a0 We will support him and he is a great driver,&#8221; said the German.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton could be considering a switch from McLaren to Red Bull, according to new speculation on Monday. Sapa-AFP wire reports said the 26-year-old world champion of 2008 met with Red Bull officials at the offices of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve at the weekend. Team sources confirmed Hamilton spent 15 minutes during a &#8220;social visit&#8221; &#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":[128,1298,5262,5340,154,242,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12762"}],"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=12762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12763,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12762\/revisions\/12763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}