{"id":13599,"date":"2011-09-05T07:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13599"},"modified":"2011-09-05T07:01:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:01:23","slug":"button-open-to-managing-fellow-f1-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/button-open-to-managing-fellow-f1-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Button open to managing fellow F1 driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new management company involving Jenson Button would consider handling the career of another formula one driver.<\/p>\n<p>That is the claim of the McLaren driver&#8217;s manager Richard Goddard, who has set up London-based Sports Partnership in collaboration with 31-year-old Button.<\/p>\n<p>Goddard told the Gulf News that Button would have no problem being involved in the management of a fellow F1 driver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;Of course Jenson wouldn&#8217;t want a business relationship with a direct rival &#8212; but he would enjoy working with a young guy, somebody who has just come into F1 or who is on the brink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2009 world champion Button, who is likely to stay at McLaren in 2012, thinks his involvement could help the career of a fellow athlete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fully understand the pressures of being a high profile international sports star and I have learned how to operate with the media and sponsors,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new management company involving Jenson Button would consider handling the career of another formula one driver. That is the claim of the McLaren driver&#8217;s manager Richard Goddard, who has set up London-based Sports Partnership in collaboration with 31-year-old Button. Goddard told the Gulf News that Button would have no problem being involved in the &#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":[5262,5340,153,5284,3283],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599"}],"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=13599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13600,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599\/revisions\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}