{"id":17682,"date":"2013-01-28T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T12:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17682"},"modified":"2013-01-28T07:05:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T12:05:36","slug":"schumacher-to-race-karts-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-to-race-karts-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher to race karts in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now back in retirement, Michael Schumacher will return to his karting roots in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Michael-Schumacher-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Michael-Schumacher-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>In the days after the seven time world champion&#8217;s last grand prix late last year, we reported that the 44-year-old had signed up to be a test driver for the Italian kart maker Tony Kart this year.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s El Mundo Deportivo newspaper reports that the great German will in fact be racing in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Preparing for his new race seat in the KZ category, Schumacher was testing his Tony Kart at the Lonato circuit in Italy last week and &#8211; reportedly &#8211; his laptimes were &#8220;very good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Kolner Express newspaper reports that &#8211; with Hermann Tilke on board as designer &#8211; Schumacher has commissioned a new world championship-standard karting circuit near Cologne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will build the best track in Europe,&#8221; Gerhard Noack is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Tilke confirmed: &#8220;The plans are ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now back in retirement, Michael Schumacher will return to his karting roots in 2013. In the days after the seven time world champion&#8217;s last grand prix late last year, we reported that the 44-year-old had signed up to be a test driver for the Italian kart maker Tony Kart this year. Spain&#8217;s El Mundo Deportivo &#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":[5262,5340,875,92,1485],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682"}],"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=17682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17683,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions\/17683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}