{"id":19354,"date":"2013-09-22T07:37:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T11:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19354"},"modified":"2013-09-22T07:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T11:37:03","slug":"mercedes-eyes-massa-for-dtm-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-eyes-massa-for-dtm-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes eyes Massa for DTM seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toto Wolff, the boss of Mercedes&#8217; motor racing activities, has admitted Felipe Massa is a candidate to move into the German touring car series DTM in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>While also hoping to move to Lotus next year but not ruling out a sabbatical after Ferrari decided to replace him with Kimi Raikkonen, Brazilian Massa recently admitted he might be interested in DTM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not like endurance races,&#8221; O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper quoted him as saying, &#8220;(but) DTM is something I see as possible for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Austrian Wolff, who watched Massa outqualify his Ferrari teammate Fernando Alonso in Singapore on Saturday, said the 32-year-old might be in the running for a seat with Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A driver like Felipe, with services as he has shown here, would be a benefit for DTM or any other racing series,&#8221; he told Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s definitely an interesting driver.\u00a0 We would certainly consider it,&#8221; admitted Wolff.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toto Wolff, the boss of Mercedes&#8217; motor racing activities, has admitted Felipe Massa is a candidate to move into the German touring car series DTM in 2014. While also hoping to move to Lotus next year but not ruling out a sabbatical after Ferrari decided to replace him with Kimi Raikkonen, Brazilian Massa recently admitted &#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":[4088,5262,130,5340,8,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354"}],"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=19354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19355,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions\/19355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}