{"id":12936,"date":"2011-06-27T06:55:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T10:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2011-06-27T06:55:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T10:55:40","slug":"schumacher-must-trigger-2012-contract-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-must-trigger-2012-contract-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher must trigger 2012 contract option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher can decide if he stays at Mercedes or hangs up his formula one comeback at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p>After a disappointing season and a half since returning to F1 with Mercedes looked to have turned a corner in Canada, the famous 42-year-old German had yet another bad race on the streets of Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted he was to blame for colliding with Renault&#8217;s Vitaly Petrov and finishing seventeenth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not a very satisfying race for me,&#8221; said Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier at the Spanish port venue, it emerged that Schumacher&#8217;s three-year contract was in fact a two year deal including a one-side option for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Cologne tabloid Express reports that it is therefore still possible that Nico Rosberg will be partnered next year by the heavily Mercedes-supported Force India rookie Paul di Resta.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn was asked before the European grand prix on whose side &#8211; team or driver &#8211; Schumacher&#8217;s 2012 option can be triggered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael&#8217;s,&#8221; the Briton answered.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher can decide if he stays at Mercedes or hangs up his formula one comeback at the end of this season. After a disappointing season and a half since returning to F1 with Mercedes looked to have turned a corner in Canada, the famous 42-year-old German had yet another bad race on the streets &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936"}],"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=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12937,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions\/12937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}