{"id":16619,"date":"2012-09-14T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16619"},"modified":"2012-09-14T08:05:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:05:24","slug":"mercedes-offering-schumacher-2013-contract-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-offering-schumacher-2013-contract-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes offering Schumacher 2013 contract – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid all the hype about Lewis Hamilton’s supposed move to Mercedes, the German squad appears to be preparing to extend Michael Schumacher’s career.<\/p>\n

\"R12Bel-F1-07\"The major German daily Bild said 43-year-old Schumacher’s negotiations about 2013 and beyond are now “in full swing”.<\/p>\n

The report claims Mercedes is offering the seven time world champion a new contract for 2013, while Schumacher is apparently pushing for a unilateral option that would allow him to decide to keep racing in 2014 as well.<\/p>\n

The carmaker’s motor racing president Norbert Haug said: “There is still no decision.\u00a0 We are continuing to negotiate.”<\/p>\n

With Nico Rosberg already under contract for 2013, a new deal for Schumacher would appear to lock out McLaren’s Hamilton, who according to Bild is demanding EUR 25 million per year from his next employer.<\/p>\n

But Rosberg’s name has also been connected with McLaren in recent days, raising the prospect of a Schumacher-Hamilton driver lineup at Mercedes in 2013.<\/p>\n

Mercedes engines might also be playing a big role in the whole affair.<\/p>\n

With former works partner McLaren now needing to pay the Stuttgart manufacturer for its power units, a cartoon at motorsport-magazin.com depicted Haug telling Martin Whitmarsh: “Kein Lewis, Keine motoren” (No Lewis, no engines).<\/p>\n

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Amid all the hype about Lewis Hamilton’s supposed move to Mercedes, the German squad appears to be preparing to extend Michael Schumacher’s career. The major German daily Bild said 43-year-old Schumacher’s negotiations about 2013 and beyond are now “in full swing”. The report claims Mercedes is offering the seven time world champion a new contract …<\/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":[5262,5340,154,491,34,92,4,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619"}],"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=16619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16620,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions\/16620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}