{"id":15500,"date":"2012-03-16T07:17:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15500"},"modified":"2012-03-25T21:21:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:21:14","slug":"new-schumacher-deal-would-indicate-progress-brawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-schumacher-deal-would-indicate-progress-brawn\/","title":{"rendered":"New Schumacher deal would indicate progress &#8211; Brawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn in Melbourne has admitted he would like to keep working with Michael Schumacher beyond 2012.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Ross-Brown-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ross-Brown-2\" width=\"384\" height=\"274\" \/>The seven time world champion&#8217;s three-year Mercedes contract expires this season, and the 43-year-old said on Thursday he has &#8220;no timetable&#8221; for talks with the Brackley based team.<\/p>\n<p>There have been reports Mercedes sees McLaren&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton &#8211; also with an expiring contract &#8211; as a potential successor to Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Brawn, however, admitted he hopes Mercedes and Schumacher live up to their expectations in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to continuing to work with Michael,&#8221; he told SID news agency, &#8220;because that would mean we are successful in what we are doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Michael stays in the team, that would mean that we are coming closer to our goals,&#8221; explained Brawn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At some point in the season we will decide to continue, or do something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, however, denied that 2012 is &#8220;any more important than any other&#8221; season in terms of his future.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn in Melbourne has admitted he would like to keep working with Michael Schumacher beyond 2012. The seven time world champion&#8217;s three-year Mercedes contract expires this season, and the 43-year-old said on Thursday he has &#8220;no timetable&#8221; for talks with the Brackley based team. There have been reports Mercedes sees McLaren&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton &#8211; &#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":[5262,5340,34,92,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500"}],"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=15500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15619,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500\/revisions\/15619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}