{"id":18098,"date":"2013-04-16T07:09:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2013-04-16T07:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:09:59","slug":"webber-rumours-grow-despite-porsche-denials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-rumours-grow-despite-porsche-denials\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber rumours grow despite Porsche denials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Porsche has denied reports it has agreed a five-year contract to move Mark Webber from formula one to its Le Mans prototype project from 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is wrong,&#8221; a spokesman told German newspaper Die Welt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark Webber has not signed a five year contract with Porsche,&#8221; he said explicitly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Porsche has a squad of ten highly successful works drivers, forming an excellent basis for the occupation of the LMP1 cockpits from 2014.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said finalising the prototype lineup is &#8220;not urgent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, the paddock rumours &#8211; not only in F1&#8217;s Shanghai paddock last week but also as the sports car championship raced at the same time at Silverstone &#8211; are strong.<\/p>\n<p>Bild newspaper said Webber, 36, has already visited Porsche&#8217;s Weissach factory and agreed a three-year term, even if his actual financial retainer is still to be finalised.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the Webber rumours, a team figure of the similarly Volkswagen-owned Audi camp at Silverstone admitted that Porsche &#8220;could go in that direction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And Derek Bell, a four-time Le Mans winner with Porsche in the 70s and 80s, told the Huffington Post at Silverstone: &#8220;I hear he (Webber) has gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porsche has denied reports it has agreed a five-year contract to move Mark Webber from formula one to its Le Mans prototype project from 2014. &#8220;This is wrong,&#8221; a spokesman told German newspaper Die Welt. &#8220;Mark Webber has not signed a five year contract with Porsche,&#8221; he said explicitly. &#8220;Porsche has a squad of ten &#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":[990,5262,5340,165,4395,4396],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098"}],"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=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18099,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions\/18099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}