{"id":17079,"date":"2012-11-16T07:02:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T12:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17079"},"modified":"2012-11-16T07:02:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T12:02:45","slug":"ferrari-approached-webber-for-2013-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-approached-webber-for-2013-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari &#8216;approached&#8217; Webber for 2013 drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has revealed Ferrari was interested in signing him for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the Australian decided to stay at Red Bull, despite confirming suggestions the team&#8217;s driver manager Dr Helmut Marko is keener on Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone can see where Helmut&#8217;s allegiance lies,&#8221; Webber told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there are two cars and I have the opportunity to drive one of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Webber and Ferrari have played down their reported links earlier this year, but the 36-year-old is now more willing to reveal the extent of the talks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ferrari approached us first,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made the decision just before Silverstone when both teams seemed pretty interested.\u00a0 I&#8217;m happy with that decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has revealed Ferrari was interested in signing him for 2013. Ultimately, the Australian decided to stay at Red Bull, despite confirming suggestions the team&#8217;s driver manager Dr Helmut Marko is keener on Sebastian Vettel. &#8220;Everyone can see where Helmut&#8217;s allegiance lies,&#8221; Webber told CNN. &#8220;But there are two cars and I have 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":[1628,5262,93,5340,165],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079"}],"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=17079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17080,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17079\/revisions\/17080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}