{"id":16289,"date":"2012-07-05T19:54:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T23:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16289"},"modified":"2012-07-05T19:54:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T23:54:23","slug":"schumacher-has-unilateral-option-to-extend-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-has-unilateral-option-to-extend-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher has &#8216;unilateral option&#8217; to extend contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extension of Michael Schumacher&#8217;s contract at Mercedes is the seven time world champion&#8217;s decision alone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Michael-Schumacher-1.jpg\" alt=\"Michael-Schumacher-1\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is the claim of the German newspaper Die Welt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In (F1) industry circles it is said that Schumacher sets the direction,&#8221; read the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apparently only he has the unilateral option to renew his contract.\u00a0 So the veteran is unlikely to be rushed into making a hasty decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news puts into context Mercedes&#8217; imposition of a six-week deadline for a decision about the 2013 cockpit alongside Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know it is coming and we have to make a decision soon,&#8221; team boss Ross Brawn said.<\/p>\n<p>Die Welt&#8217;s claim also makes sense of team executive Nick Fry&#8217;s recent assertion that Schumacher&#8217;s run of bad luck could move the 43-year-old to quit, and his naming of Paul di Resta as an ideal successor.<\/p>\n<p>And Schumacher&#8217;s manager Sabine Kehm said on Wednesday: &#8220;We won&#8217;t participate in a public discussion about time periods, background or preferences,&#8221; she told DPA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can only repeat that we will communicate the decision along with the team when it comes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extension of Michael Schumacher&#8217;s contract at Mercedes is the seven time world champion&#8217;s decision alone. That is the claim of the German newspaper Die Welt. &#8220;In (F1) industry circles it is said that Schumacher sets the direction,&#8221; read the report. &#8220;Apparently only he has the unilateral option to renew his contract.\u00a0 So the veteran &#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":[5262,5340,92,323,35,250],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289"}],"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=16289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16290,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289\/revisions\/16290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}