{"id":12852,"date":"2011-06-20T07:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12852"},"modified":"2011-06-20T07:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:12:34","slug":"mclaren-ready-to-pay-more-to-keep-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-ready-to-pay-more-to-keep-button\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren ready to pay more to keep Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren is willing to give Jenson Button a pay-rise to stop him moving to Ferrari, the Daily Mail reports on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 world champion revealed last week that the Woking based team he joined last season &#8220;has an option on me for next year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time Button, 31, said he is reluctant to agree a new long-term deal, despite boss Martin Whitmarsh admitting he would &#8220;quickly&#8221; ink a new multi-year contract with the former Brawn driver.<\/p>\n<p>The latest twist in the story was a Ferrari source telling the News of the World newspaper that Ferrari has &#8220;checked&#8221; with Button&#8217;s management to see when Button is available as a replacement for Felipe Massa.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after that report was published, the Daily Mail said McLaren is &#8220;ready to hand Jenson Button a pay rise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said the British team is taking up the 2012 option on Button &#8220;but are so happy with his performances&#8221; that in the next few weeks McLaren is &#8220;likely to offer him an extended deal on improved terms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren is willing to give Jenson Button a pay-rise to stop him moving to Ferrari, the Daily Mail reports on Monday. The 2009 world champion revealed last week that the Woking based team he joined last season &#8220;has an option on me for next year&#8221;. At the same time Button, 31, said he is reluctant &#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":[5262,93,5340,153,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852"}],"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=12852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12853,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions\/12853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}