{"id":15720,"date":"2012-04-02T06:58:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15720"},"modified":"2012-04-02T06:58:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:58:15","slug":"button-received-ferrari-offer-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/button-received-ferrari-offer-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Button received Ferrari ‘offer’ last year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenson Button reportedly received an “offer” from Ferrari before re-committing last year to the McLaren team.<\/p>\n

\"Jenson-Button\"The Brazilian news agency Agencia Estado said the Briton held talks with Ferrari prior to October last year, when his new ‘multi-year contract’ with his famous British employer was announced.<\/p>\n

Estado said Ferrari courted Button, 32, as a potential replacement for struggling Felipe Massa, who is now tipped to be succeeded in 2013 by Sergio Perez.<\/p>\n

Asked to comment, Button said: “I was happy to know that my work was respected.<\/p>\n

“I had a listen to what some of the other teams could offer me.”<\/p>\n

The revelation in the Brazilian press follows Button’s comments last week about Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n

“If Lewis (Hamilton) wasn’t in formula one, I personally feel it would be exciting having Fernando as a teammate,” he told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

“Is he the fastest in the sport?\u00a0 Probably not, and he would probably say the same, but he is very intelligent.<\/p>\n

“One of the ways in which we are (similar) is in terms of wanting a team of people around us.\u00a0 We need that support to really achieve.<\/p>\n

“So yeah, he’d be exciting to work with, to work with and to be an enemy, which I’m sure he would be,” added Button.<\/p>\n

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Jenson Button reportedly received an “offer” from Ferrari before re-committing last year to the McLaren team. The Brazilian news agency Agencia Estado said the Briton held talks with Ferrari prior to October last year, when his new ‘multi-year contract’ with his famous British employer was announced. Estado said Ferrari courted Button, 32, as a potential …<\/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":[5262,93,5340,153,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720"}],"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=15720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15721,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions\/15721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}