{"id":16916,"date":"2012-10-25T06:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16916"},"modified":"2012-10-25T06:54:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T10:54:12","slug":"safety-car-driver-not-eyeing-retirement-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/safety-car-driver-not-eyeing-retirement-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety car driver not eyeing retirement yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although now into his 40s, Bernd Maylander said he has no immediate plans to step back as F1&#8217;s full-time safety car driver.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly a race winner in the DTM series, the now 41-year-old has been the safety car driver since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by the Kolner Express newspaper if he has started to think about retirement after 13 seasons in the pitlane, Maylander answered: &#8220;It&#8217;s funny, because in the last two years I have been getting that question more and more often.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The clock is ticking for all of us, but basically I can do the job for a few more years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still feel fit enough to do all the travelling and to drive cars at the limit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once you get gasoline in your blood, I see it as a positive addiction,&#8221; Maylander smiled.\u00a0 &#8220;My contracts are ongoing and my partner is also quite happy that I am not at home all the time!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although now into his 40s, Bernd Maylander said he has no immediate plans to step back as F1&#8217;s full-time safety car driver. Formerly a race winner in the DTM series, the now 41-year-old has been the safety car driver since 2000. Asked by the Kolner Express newspaper if he has started to think about retirement &#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":[2436,4088,5262,4087,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916"}],"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=16916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16917,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions\/16917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}