{"id":16291,"date":"2012-07-05T19:58:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16291"},"modified":"2012-07-05T19:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T23:58:44","slug":"di-resta-spokesman-confirms-hamilton-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/di-resta-spokesman-confirms-hamilton-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Resta spokesman confirms Hamilton split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesman for Paul di Resta has confirmed reports the Force India driver his split with his manager Anthony Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Paul-Di-Resta-1.jpg\" alt=\"Paul-Di-Resta-1\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The Telegraph had said the 26-year-old Scot and Hamilton, who also no longer manages his son Lewis Hamilton, parted &#8220;some weeks ago&#8221; for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for di Resta, who is linked with a move to Mercedes for 2013 in the event Michael Schumacher returns to retirement, confirmed the split to the Scotsman and Sun newspapers, but did not elaborate on the reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Grenada-born Hamilton, 56, has not commented.<\/p>\n<p>But the Scotsman said di Resta or Hamilton have no plans to formally announce the split.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Brundle, a former grand prix driver turned lead British television commentator, tipped di Resta for a bright future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no doubt that Paul will be on the shopping list for consideration by several top and well funded teams in the future and he is unquestionably a great talent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s too early to say if he&#8217;s world champion material.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesman for Paul di Resta has confirmed reports the Force India driver his split with his manager Anthony Hamilton. The Telegraph had said the 26-year-old Scot and Hamilton, who also no longer manages his son Lewis Hamilton, parted &#8220;some weeks ago&#8221; for unknown reasons. A spokesman for di Resta, who is linked with a &#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":[902,5262,576,5340,92,323],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291"}],"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=16291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16292,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions\/16292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}