{"id":1410,"date":"2010-01-11T21:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T02:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2010-01-11T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T21:18:44","slug":"schumacher-agreed-f1-return-without-willi-weber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-agreed-f1-return-without-willi-weber\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher agreed F1 return without Willi Weber"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher reportedly saved about EUR700,000 by negotiating his return to formula one in 2010 without the involvement of long-time manager Willi Weber.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper said that although the 41-year-old&#8217;s career with Weber, 66, dates back to the 80s, the seven time world champion did not seek any help throughout his talks with his new team boss Ross Brawn.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am now old enough to take care of a few things for myself,&#8221; Schumacher is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that the winner of a record 91 grands prix did not have to pay his usual 10 per cent commission to Weber, therefore saving about EUR700,000 this year alone.<\/p>\n<p>In late December, Weber denied that he is no longer Schumacher&#8217;s manager.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher confirms: &#8220;Willi Weber is and remains my manager and my friend.\u00a0 We cooperate as well as ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bild said Weber will work on attracting more sponsors for Schumacher, whose existing commercial deals are reported to have already nearly quadrupled his EUR7 million Mercedes retainer for 2010.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher reportedly saved about EUR700,000 by negotiating his return to formula one in 2010 without the involvement of long-time manager Willi Weber. \u00a0 Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper said that although the 41-year-old&#8217;s career with Weber, 66, dates back to the 80s, the seven time world champion did not seek any help throughout his talks with &#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":[5262,34,92,35,334],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"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=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}