{"id":17452,"date":"2012-12-21T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T12:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17452"},"modified":"2012-12-21T07:20:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T12:20:02","slug":"ecclestone-says-hamilton-chasing-mercedes-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-says-hamilton-chasing-mercedes-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone says Hamilton chasing Mercedes cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has this week delighted his Christmas card recipients with his latest humorous handiwork.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, the F1 chief executive commissions an original cartoon for his annual card, depicting a contemporary F1 issue with a mischievous tilt.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2012 holiday season, the 82-year-old&#8217;s card shows Lewis Hamilton abandoning his broken-down McLaren and leaping into a Mercedes saloon.<\/p>\n<p>The silver road car is being driven by the red-capped Niki Lauda, and in the passenger seat is a big golden bag of cash for Briton Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>They are bound for Stuttgart, which according to the roadside sign is &#8220;Not far&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes&#8217; Nico Rosberg also amused his fans this week with his own Christmas message.<\/p>\n<p>The German posted a Youtube video depicting him riding a rodeo bull.\u00a0 See: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_4vvmA4_ER8<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has this week delighted his Christmas card recipients with his latest humorous handiwork. Every year, the F1 chief executive commissions an original cartoon for his annual card, depicting a contemporary F1 issue with a mischievous tilt. For the 2012 holiday season, the 82-year-old&#8217;s card shows Lewis Hamilton abandoning his broken-down McLaren and leaping &#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":[59,5262,5340,154,34,4,598],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452"}],"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=17452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17453,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions\/17453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}