{"id":16841,"date":"2012-10-13T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16841"},"modified":"2012-10-13T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T13:28:00","slug":"mercedes-made-right-choice-with-hamilton-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-made-right-choice-with-hamilton-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes made &#8216;right choice&#8217; with Hamilton &#8211; Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has backed Mercedes&#8217; decision to replace him for 2013 and beyond with Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Michael-Schumacher-2.jpg\" alt=\"Michael-Schumacher-2\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The seven time world champion told SID news agency the perception that he was &#8216;ousted&#8217; by the German marque is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people in charge repeatedly emphasised that they wanted me to continue working even after the season,&#8221; the 43-year-old said in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And not for one year, but for two more years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought about it, but it would have been difficult &#8212; even for one year,&#8221; said the German great, who explained that his motivation is waning after a three-year comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher therefore backed Mercedes&#8217; decision to poach Briton Hamilton from McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can get Lewis Hamilton, you should,&#8221; he smiled.\u00a0 &#8220;I would have done the same; he is the right choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has backed Mercedes&#8217; decision to replace him for 2013 and beyond with Lewis Hamilton. The seven time world champion told SID news agency the perception that he was &#8216;ousted&#8217; by the German marque is wrong. &#8220;The people in charge repeatedly emphasised that they wanted me to continue working even after the season,&#8221; the &#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":[5262,5340,154,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16841"}],"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=16841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16842,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16841\/revisions\/16842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}