{"id":16676,"date":"2012-09-28T07:31:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16676"},"modified":"2012-09-28T07:31:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:31:23","slug":"mercedes-signs-hamilton-concorde-lauda-not-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-signs-hamilton-concorde-lauda-not-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes signs Hamilton, Concorde, Lauda, not Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes finally ended the &#8216;Lewis Hamilton saga&#8217; on Friday by announcing the 2008 world champion has signed a three-year deal to race for the German carmaker&#8217;s F1 team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Lewis-Hamilton.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis-Hamilton\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The media statement also confirmed that Mercedes has signed the new 2013-2020 Concorde Agreement, that Hamilton is replacing Michael Schumacher, and that Niki Lauda is set to join as non-executive chairman.<\/p>\n<p>27-year-old Briton Hamilton&#8217;s teammate next year will be Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is now time for me to take on a fresh challenge and I am very excited to begin a new chapter,&#8221; he said Hamilton, who has raced for McLaren since entering F1 in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes&#8217; media statement did not say if seven time world champion Schumacher, who has been linked with a move to team management or perhaps even Sauber, is returning to retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have had three nice years with the team which unfortunately did not go as well as we all would have wanted on the sporting side,&#8221; said the great German.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will now concentrate on the next races.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes finally ended the &#8216;Lewis Hamilton saga&#8217; on Friday by announcing the 2008 world champion has signed a three-year deal to race for the German carmaker&#8217;s F1 team. The media statement also confirmed that Mercedes has signed the new 2013-2020 Concorde Agreement, that Hamilton is replacing Michael Schumacher, and that Niki Lauda is set to &#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":[674,5262,5340,154,34,92,4,598],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676"}],"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=16676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16677,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions\/16677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}