{"id":16717,"date":"2012-10-04T09:05:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T13:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2012-10-04T09:05:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T13:05:53","slug":"mercedes-offers-schumacher-new-non-racing-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-offers-schumacher-new-non-racing-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes offers Schumacher new non-racing job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche has invited Michael Schumacher to stay in the Mercedes family in a non-racing role.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-logos\/Mercedes.jpg\" alt=\"Mercedes\" width=\"216\" height=\"86\" \/>&#8220;My personal wish is that he (Schumacher) remains a partner of our enterprise after his active time in the Mercedes cockpit,&#8221; he is quoted by the Bild am Feiertag newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it is believed the seven time world champion &#8211; having been told he is being replaced for 2013 by Lewis Hamilton &#8211; is weighing up his options elsewhere on next year&#8217;s grid.<\/p>\n<p>But Mercedes&#8217; motor racing president Norbert Haug is also leaving the door open for the 43-year-old to take up a different role.<\/p>\n<p>He and Zetsche have both said it was Mercedes&#8217; fault that Schumacher failed to win during his three-year comeback period.<\/p>\n<p>And Haug told SID news agency there is no rift or &#8220;tension&#8221; in the wake of the Hamilton news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Schumacher) has assured us that, in light of the long term dimension, he fully understands the commitment with Lewis Hamilton,&#8221; said Haug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no tension between Michael and the team and we can absolutely imagine a further cooperation,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche has invited Michael Schumacher to stay in the Mercedes family in a non-racing role. &#8220;My personal wish is that he (Schumacher) remains a partner of our enterprise after his active time in the Mercedes cockpit,&#8221; he is quoted by the Bild am Feiertag newspaper. Actually, it is believed the seven time &#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":[117,5262,5340,34,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717"}],"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=16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16718,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions\/16718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}