{"id":14207,"date":"2011-11-10T19:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14207"},"modified":"2011-11-10T19:14:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:14:29","slug":"schumacher-not-in-future-talks-with-mercedes-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-not-in-future-talks-with-mercedes-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher not in future talks with Mercedes yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher on Thursday insisted he is not yet even talking to Mercedes about extending his contract beyond 2012.<\/p>\n<p>His teammate Nico Rosberg has inked a new multi year deal beyond 2013, and earlier this week it was reported that Schumacher is set to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>But Schumacher said in Abu Dhabi when asked about the possibility of a new deal: &#8220;It&#8217;s not the time to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether I want to extend my future in this sport and for how long is something I have to decide for myself in due time,&#8221; the 42-year-old is quoted by SID news agency.<\/p>\n<p>As for Rosberg&#8217;s new deal, Schumacher described it is a &#8220;perfectly reasonable and good decision.\u00a0 Frankly I would not have expected something else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Rosberg news, however, followed speculation he might replace Felipe Massa at Ferrari, with some reports saying he even visited Maranello recently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That (story) was completely out of thin air,&#8221; Rosberg said in Abu Dhabi.\u00a0 &#8220;At the time the new (Mercedes) contract had been made long ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher on Thursday insisted he is not yet even talking to Mercedes about extending his contract beyond 2012. His teammate Nico Rosberg has inked a new multi year deal beyond 2013, and earlier this week it was reported that Schumacher is set to do the same. But Schumacher said in Abu Dhabi when asked &#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":[163,5262,5340,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207"}],"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=14207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14211,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207\/revisions\/14211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}