{"id":13941,"date":"2011-10-16T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13941"},"modified":"2011-10-16T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T23:15:13","slug":"boss-tells-button-to-curb-le-mans-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/boss-tells-button-to-curb-le-mans-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Boss tells Button to curb Le Mans fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button can for now put aside his plans to contest the Le Mans 24 hour race.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, after signing a new contract with McLaren, the 2009 world champion expressed interest in the company&#8217;s rumoured plans to enter its MP4-12C sports car in the fabled French endurance race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not sure if I would be allowed but yes I am very interested,&#8221; Button, 31, said at Suzuka.<\/p>\n<p>But even though the 2012 Le Mans is scheduled for the weekend between Canada and Valencia, team boss Martin Whitmarsh has bad news for the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next year?\u00a0 Probably not,&#8221; Whitmarsh is quoted by the Press Association in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He hasn&#8217;t asked me.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t plan to have a McLaren (at Le Mans) next year, but we&#8217;ll go back there one day because we have happy memories and one day in the future he (Button) might be doing that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But over the next few years I think he&#8217;ll be concentrating on F1 and not Le Mans, but I&#8217;m sure we can accommodate it in the future,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button can for now put aside his plans to contest the Le Mans 24 hour race. Earlier this month, after signing a new contract with McLaren, the 2009 world champion expressed interest in the company&#8217;s rumoured plans to enter its MP4-12C sports car in the fabled French endurance race. &#8220;Not sure if I would &#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":[5262,5340,153,455,491],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941"}],"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=13941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13942,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941\/revisions\/13942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}