{"id":1727,"date":"2010-01-23T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2010-01-23T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:26:46","slug":"heidfeld-to-be-mercedes-reserve-in-2010-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/heidfeld-to-be-mercedes-reserve-in-2010-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidfeld to be Mercedes reserve in 2010 &#8211; manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nick Heidfeld will be the reserve driver for Mercedes GP in 2010, a report quoted his manager as saying on Friday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Auto Bild claims the appointment of the 32-year-old grand prix veteran, who would complete an all-German lineup for the former Brawn team, will be announced officially in Stuttgart on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nick wants to concentrate fully on his job as test driver and support the regular drivers with his experience,&#8221; Heidfeld&#8217;s manager Andre Theuerzeit said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nick had focused on having a (race) cockpit with the top teams, but their decisions were rather late. So we&#8217;ve gone for another opportunity,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a subsequent German news report, Theuerzeit denied that a contract has been signed.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes competition director Norbert Haug said late this week that the Brackley based team&#8217;s deliberations about a reserve driver were &#8220;maturing&#8221; but &#8220;not finalised yet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Heidfeld was recently linked with a move to Renault in 2010 but it is believed the newly Genii Capital-controlled team will instead appoint a pay driver.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld will be the reserve driver for Mercedes GP in 2010, a report quoted his manager as saying on Friday. \u00a0 Auto Bild claims the appointment of the 32-year-old grand prix veteran, who would complete an all-German lineup for the former Brawn team, will be announced officially in Stuttgart on Monday. &#8220;Nick wants to &#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":[467,5262,34,98,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}