{"id":2121,"date":"2010-02-04T19:05:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2010-02-04T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:05:58","slug":"mercedes-confirms-heidfeld-as-2010-reserve-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-confirms-heidfeld-as-2010-reserve-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes confirms Heidfeld as 2010 reserve driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mercedes GP on Thursday confirmed that Nick Heidfeld will be the team&#8217;s test and reserve driver in 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old German, who has consecutively contested 169 grands prix since his 2000 debut with Prost, had hoped for the race seat prior to Michael Schumacher&#8217;s decision to return to F1.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s announcement means that the entire Mercedes lineup for this season is German.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whilst I would of course have preferred a seat as an active driver, I am really proud to be part of the new Silver Arrows team,&#8221; Heidfeld said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes GP on Thursday confirmed that Nick Heidfeld will be the team&#8217;s test and reserve driver in 2010. \u00a0 The 32-year-old German, who has consecutively contested 169 grands prix since his 2000 debut with Prost, had hoped for the race seat prior to Michael Schumacher&#8217;s decision to return to F1.<\/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":[5262,34,98],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121"}],"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=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}