{"id":13052,"date":"2011-07-08T04:35:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T08:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13052"},"modified":"2011-07-08T04:35:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T08:35:16","slug":"mateschitz-rules-out-mclaren-drivers-for-red-bull-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mateschitz-rules-out-mclaren-drivers-for-red-bull-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mateschitz rules out McLaren drivers for Red Bull seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Mateschitz has drawn a line under speculation linking Lewis Hamilton with Red Bull next year.<\/p>\n<p>Mateschitz, the billionaire owner of the famous energy drink, told Kronen Zeitung newspaper that all the rumours have been &#8220;completely false&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With Mark Webber likely to ink a new deal for 2012, Austrian Mateschitz indicated that any future candidate for a Red Bull seat will be picked from the company&#8217;s own talent pool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only when we have no one appropriate from our own pool would we consider one of the guys in question,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mateschitz may have also been referring to Hamilton&#8217;s McLaren teammate Jenson Button, who in the last 24 hours has also been linked with a move to Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>A source told The Sun: &#8220;In some ways his bosses think he is doing a better job than Lewis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Button however said his future is not currently on his mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You think I want to sit over a contract for the next three days?\u00a0 This is an important weekend,&#8221; the 2009 world champion said at Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Mateschitz has drawn a line under speculation linking Lewis Hamilton with Red Bull next year. Mateschitz, the billionaire owner of the famous energy drink, told Kronen Zeitung newspaper that all the rumours have been &#8220;completely false&#8221;. With Mark Webber likely to ink a new deal for 2012, Austrian Mateschitz indicated that any future candidate &#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":[262,5262,5340,153,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13052"}],"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=13052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13053,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13052\/revisions\/13053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}