{"id":16584,"date":"2012-09-02T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16584"},"modified":"2012-09-02T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T11:50:00","slug":"schumacher-hints-intention-to-race-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-hints-intention-to-race-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher hints intention to race in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher may have dropped the biggest hint yet about his plans for the future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center 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\" \/>On the heels of the August break&#8217;s rumours, the seven time world champion explained at Spa on Thursday that he and Mercedes will only have decided the plan for 2013 &#8220;by October&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing has changed, so no news I&#8217;m afraid,&#8221; the great German told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>But that was before Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, to mark his mentor, countryman and friend&#8217;s landmark 300th race, Sebastian Vettel painted a humorous picture of Schumacher racing his silver Mercedes through the legendary Eau Rouge.<\/p>\n<p>When the Austrian broadcaster ORF showed Schumacher the painting, the 43-year-old grabbed a pen and wrote a caption: &#8220;2013&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag said it &#8220;knows&#8221; that negotiations between Schumacher and Mercedes about next year are currently &#8220;underway&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher may have dropped the biggest hint yet about his plans for the future. On the heels of the August break&#8217;s rumours, the seven time world champion explained at Spa on Thursday that he and Mercedes will only have decided the plan for 2013 &#8220;by October&#8221;. &#8220;Nothing has changed, so no news I&#8217;m afraid,&#8221; &#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":[5262,5340,4022,34,92,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16584"}],"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=16584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16585,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16584\/revisions\/16585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}