{"id":17256,"date":"2012-11-30T06:58:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17256"},"modified":"2012-11-30T06:58:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T11:58:18","slug":"schumacher-to-be-karting-test-driver-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-to-be-karting-test-driver-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher to be karting test driver in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports that Michael Schumacher has signed up as Mercedes&#8217; F1 test driver for 2013 are wrong.<\/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 reports were sparked when the retiring seven time world champion was quoted in English-language reports as saying: &#8220;I have signed a contract and will be active as a test driver&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the 43-year-old&#8217;s interview was with Stern, the German weekly newsmagazine.<\/p>\n<p>And he clarified to the Germany daily Bild that he will be a test driver in 2013 &#8212; for the Italian kart chassis maker Tony Kart.<\/p>\n<p>He explained: &#8220;I like karting.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always been a big thing for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Schumacher told Stern that he is looking forward to &#8220;not thinking so much about F1&#8221; in 2013 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>One of his new passions is skydiving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still a beginner, but I am looking forward to not always having to be thinking of F1.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports that Michael Schumacher has signed up as Mercedes&#8217; F1 test driver for 2013 are wrong. The reports were sparked when the retiring seven time world champion was quoted in English-language reports as saying: &#8220;I have signed a contract and will be active as a test driver&#8221;. In fact, the 43-year-old&#8217;s interview was with Stern, &#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":[5262,5340,92,4161,1485],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17256"}],"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=17256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17257,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17256\/revisions\/17257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}