{"id":14200,"date":"2011-11-10T06:57:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T11:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14200"},"modified":"2011-11-10T06:57:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T11:57:54","slug":"rosberg-extends-mercedes-contract-for-2013-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rosberg-extends-mercedes-contract-for-2013-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg extends Mercedes contract for 2013 and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes has ended speculation about Nico Rosberg&#8217;s future by announcing the 26-year-old has extended his contract.<\/p>\n<p>German Rosberg, who was already contracted to race alongside Michael Schumacher next season, has now inked a &#8220;multi year&#8221; extension to include 2013 &#8220;and beyond&#8221;, the Brackley based team said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have every confidence that the team will provide me with a winning car,&#8221; said Rosberg, who was recently linked with a switch to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Added team boss Ross Brawn: &#8220;We know that he is a driver who can win races and championships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was reported in the German press on Wednesday that Schumacher is also set to extend his current contract to include 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Michael, Nico has the most successful racing driver in the history of the sport as his teammate, which is a perfect combination for him as well as for our team,&#8221; said Mercedes-Benz&#8217;s Norbert Haug on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes has ended speculation about Nico Rosberg&#8217;s future by announcing the 26-year-old has extended his contract. German Rosberg, who was already contracted to race alongside Michael Schumacher next season, has now inked a &#8220;multi year&#8221; extension to include 2013 &#8220;and beyond&#8221;, the Brackley based team said on Thursday. &#8220;I have every confidence that the team &#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":[5262,5340,34,92,4,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200"}],"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=14200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14201,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions\/14201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}