{"id":12840,"date":"2011-06-19T17:57:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T21:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2011-06-19T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T21:57:23","slug":"source-says-ferrari-targeting-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/source-says-ferrari-targeting-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Source says Ferrari targeting Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari is eyeing Jenson Button as an ideal replacement for Felipe Massa, according to a British press report.<\/p>\n<p>A source at the Maranello based team told the News of the World tabloid that there has been &#8220;a lot of talk&#8221; about 2009 world champion Button, who is currently Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s teammate at McLaren, joining Ferrari alongside Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows Button&#8217;s claim last week that, despite Martin Whitmarsh saying he would extend the 31-year-old&#8217;s McLaren deal, he sees &#8220;no sense&#8221; in signing a new long-term contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Ferrari source said: &#8220;They (Ferrari) have already checked to see if he would be available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team realise they need a stronger partner for Fernando Alonso than Felipe Massa if they want to win the title again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari is eyeing Jenson Button as an ideal replacement for Felipe Massa, according to a British press report. A source at the Maranello based team told the News of the World tabloid that there has been &#8220;a lot of talk&#8221; about 2009 world champion Button, who is currently Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s teammate at McLaren, joining Ferrari &#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":[5262,130,93,5340,153],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840"}],"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=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12841,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions\/12841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}