{"id":18210,"date":"2013-05-03T07:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18210"},"modified":"2013-05-03T07:10:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T11:10:46","slug":"mercedes-would-offer-kubica-f1-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-would-offer-kubica-f1-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes would offer Kubica F1 test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes says it would be willing to give Robert Kubica a formula one test.<\/p>\n<p>The German marque this week declined to comment on reports the Pole has been driving at the wheel of Mercedes&#8217; sophisticated F1 simulator at Brackley.<\/p>\n<p>But Kubica, 28, did confirm the reports, prompting shareholder and chairman Toto Wolff to admit on Friday that the former BMW and Renault driver is &#8220;helping&#8221; Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there&#8217;s any chance of getting him back in a DTM touring car or F1 cockpit, we&#8217;d love to do it,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any team would love to have a Robert Kubica.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wolff clarified, however, that Kubica &#8211; whose right arm is still injured in the wake of his near-fatal 2011 crash &#8211; is now mainly focused on rallying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is somebody I have known for 10 years but it&#8217;s absolutely his call how he wants to help us and his main focus is rallying,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes says it would be willing to give Robert Kubica a formula one test. The German marque this week declined to comment on reports the Pole has been driving at the wheel of Mercedes&#8217; sophisticated F1 simulator at Brackley. But Kubica, 28, did confirm the reports, prompting shareholder and chairman Toto Wolff to admit on &#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":[5262,5340,4363,96,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18210"}],"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=18210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18211,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18210\/revisions\/18211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}