{"id":16889,"date":"2012-10-19T06:15:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T10:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16889"},"modified":"2012-10-19T06:08:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T10:08:56","slug":"vettel-could-join-ferrari-for-challenge-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-could-join-ferrari-for-challenge-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel could join Ferrari for &#8216;challenge&#8217; &#8211; Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has admitted his former protege and friend Sebastian Vettel might accept the &#8220;new challenge&#8221; of a Ferrari cockpit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Sebastian-Vettel-car2.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian-Vettel-car2\" width=\"384\" height=\"253\" \/>Felipe Massa&#8217;s new contract for just 2013 has only intensified speculation that the Ferrari door for Red Bull&#8217;s double world champion is wide open.<\/p>\n<p>Some think the 25-year-old German has signed some sort of 2014 &#8216;option&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher is quoted in Berlin by DPA news agency: &#8220;Seb speaks in high tones about Ferrari, but I don&#8217;t know what the future holds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, returning to retirement at the end of the year, is Ferrari&#8217;s most famous and successful driver, having won five consecutive championships with the Italian marque.<\/p>\n<p>Also as a two-time champion with a different team, Schumacher agreed to join the then-struggling Ferrari as a 26-year-old in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Vettel rumours, Schumacher added: &#8220;At some point, it may be that he is looking for a new challenge too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has admitted his former protege and friend Sebastian Vettel might accept the &#8220;new challenge&#8221; of a Ferrari cockpit. Felipe Massa&#8217;s new contract for just 2013 has only intensified speculation that the Ferrari door for Red Bull&#8217;s double world champion is wide open. Some think the 25-year-old German has signed some sort of 2014 &#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":[5262,93,5340,92,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889"}],"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=16889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16890,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889\/revisions\/16890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}