{"id":18460,"date":"2013-06-08T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T12:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18460"},"modified":"2013-06-08T08:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T12:38:23","slug":"rumours-rosberg-to-ferrari-maldonado-to-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rumours-rosberg-to-ferrari-maldonado-to-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumours &#8211; Rosberg to Ferrari, Maldonado to Lotus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer in Europe has arrived, and that is the usual trigger for &#8216;silly season&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s Marca sports newspaper said the first driver rumour in the Montreal paddock this weekend is that Felipe Massa is &#8220;impatient&#8221; for a new Ferrari contract for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper said the Maranello based team actually has its eye on two Germans &#8212; reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel, and Monaco winner Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Mercedes&#8217; Rosberg, Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali said: &#8220;He is certainly one of the drivers that we have already considered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised that he is faster than Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes.\u00a0 He has always been good, but now he has shown that he has matured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another rumour, according to Marca correspondent Marco Canseco, is that Williams&#8217; Pastor Maldonado is a possible successor in the event Lotus loses Kimi Raikkonen to Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The arrival of PDVSA as a team sponsor would be welcomed by (team owner) Gerard Lopez, of course,&#8221; said Canseco.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer in Europe has arrived, and that is the usual trigger for &#8216;silly season&#8217;. Spain&#8217;s Marca sports newspaper said the first driver rumour in the Montreal paddock this weekend is that Felipe Massa is &#8220;impatient&#8221; for a new Ferrari contract for 2014. But Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper said the Maranello based team actually has its eye &#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":[5262,5340,58,3137,4,1842,1844],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460"}],"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=18460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18461,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460\/revisions\/18461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}