{"id":16931,"date":"2012-10-28T17:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T21:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16931"},"modified":"2012-10-28T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T21:48:52","slug":"schumacher-to-keep-2012-mercedes-for-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-to-keep-2012-mercedes-for-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher to keep 2012 Mercedes for collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After contesting his 309th and final grand prix in Brazil late next month, Michael Schumacher will keep his &#8216;Silberpfeil&#8217;.<\/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\/championship-f1-2012\/R12Mon-F1\/R12Mon-F1-07.jpg\" alt=\"R12Mon-F1-07\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Bild am Sonntag newspaper said Mercedes will give the W03 &#8216;Silver Arrow&#8217; to the great seven time world champion as a parting gift, before he makes room at the team for Lewis Hamilton in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The German newspaper said the &#8216;step nose&#8217; single seater is worth about EUR 1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Asked which Mercedes he would choose for his private collection, Schumacher answered: &#8220;Definitely the one for Monaco.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is referring to the car in which he topped qualifying earlier this year, even though he did not actually start the race from pole due to a grid penalty.<\/p>\n<p>But doesn&#8217;t he think Mercedes&#8217; 2012 car is too ugly for his prized and priceless collection?<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher admits: &#8220;Visually, because of the bend in the nose, it does take some getting used to!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After contesting his 309th and final grand prix in Brazil late next month, Michael Schumacher will keep his &#8216;Silberpfeil&#8217;. Bild am Sonntag newspaper said Mercedes will give the W03 &#8216;Silver Arrow&#8217; to the great seven time world champion as a parting gift, before he makes room at the team for Lewis Hamilton in 2013. 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":[5262,5340,34,92,4090],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931"}],"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=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16932,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions\/16932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}