{"id":17842,"date":"2013-02-20T07:05:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T12:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17842"},"modified":"2013-02-20T07:05:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T12:05:55","slug":"no-mercedes-dtm-seat-for-kubica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-mercedes-dtm-seat-for-kubica\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mercedes DTM seat for Kubica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kubica has been left out of Mercedes&#8217; lineup for the German touring car series DTM in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Robert-Kubica\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Robert-Kubica.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Last month, the Pole tested one of the German marque&#8217;s cars, with Toto Wolff saying it was a &#8220;proper test in a proper race car&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s see how it goes,&#8221; said Mercedes&#8217; new motor racing director.<\/p>\n<p>While now successful in lower-tier rallying, former Renault and BMW driver Kubica is still unable to drive a powerful single seater due to the limitations of his right arm, which was almost severed in an early 2011 rally crash.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes announced on Wednesday that it has entered six DTM cars in the 2013 series, but none of them will be raced by Kubica.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Mercedes&#8217; lineup features Ralf Schumacher, Gary Paffett, Roberto Merhi, Christian Vietoris, Robert Wickens and newcomer Daniel Juncadella.<\/p>\n<p>The marque said F1 driver Nico Rosberg will mentor the youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am looking forward to following their progress this season and can maybe give the young guns a tip or two,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kubica has been left out of Mercedes&#8217; lineup for the German touring car series DTM in 2013. Last month, the Pole tested one of the German marque&#8217;s cars, with Toto Wolff saying it was a &#8220;proper test in a proper race car&#8221;. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see how it goes,&#8221; said Mercedes&#8217; new motor racing director. While &#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":[3348,4365,4366,5262,5340,493,4362,4363,4,408,96,3027,4364],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842"}],"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=17842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17843,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842\/revisions\/17843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}