{"id":18710,"date":"2013-07-07T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18710"},"modified":"2013-07-07T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T16:23:21","slug":"hulkenberg-not-denying-contract-termination-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hulkenberg-not-denying-contract-termination-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulkenberg not denying contract termination reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Hulkenberg on Sunday did not deny reports in Germany he has terminated his contract with Sauber.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Nico-Hulkenberg-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Nico-Hulkenberg-3.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Having already not denied the struggling Swiss team&#8217;s failure to pay him since May, the reports on Sunday had said the 25-year-old will continue to drive for Sauber in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>But the German and his manager Werner Heinz have reportedly terminated the deal for breach of contract, meaning Hulkenberg is now free to leave Sauber at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours at the Nurburgring suggested Heinz has already been in talks with Lotus, while Hulkenberg has also been linked with a future move to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on Sunday about the contract rumours, Hulkenberg did not deny the Sauber deal has been terminated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately I can&#8217;t and I won&#8217;t talk about contractual details,&#8221; he told German broadcaster Sky.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;Clearly I need to take care of my future,&#8221; Hulkenberg admitted.\u00a0 &#8220;Nothing is impossible or excluded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Hulkenberg on Sunday did not deny reports in Germany he has terminated his contract with Sauber. Having already not denied the struggling Swiss team&#8217;s failure to pay him since May, the reports on Sunday had said the 25-year-old will continue to drive for Sauber in 2013. But the German and his manager Werner Heinz &#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":[5262,5340,448,114,1767,1549],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18710"}],"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=18710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18711,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18710\/revisions\/18711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}