{"id":22271,"date":"2014-06-13T06:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22271"},"modified":"2014-06-13T06:44:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:44:21","slug":"hamilton-rosberg-have-two-year-contracts-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-rosberg-have-two-year-contracts-wolff\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton, Rosberg have &#8216;two year contracts&#8217; &#8211; Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg will remain paired at Mercedes for at least the next two years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-persons\/Toto-Wolff-1.jpg\" alt=\"Toto-Wolff-1\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" \/>That is the claim of boss and team co-owner Toto Wolff, on the heels of a wave of speculation about the future lineup of the currently dominant F1 outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Wolff played down reports Mercedes could be eyeing the frustrated Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso, while Mercedes&#8217; 2014 star Lewis Hamilton was this week spotted at Ferrari&#8217;s Maranello headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Nico Rosberg&#8217;s place at the silver-clad team was also in doubt until team figures declared the 28-year-old German in fact has a &#8220;long term&#8221; contract.<\/p>\n<p>Also committed to Mercedes is Hamilton, Austrian Wolff told a group of Spanish reporters at the team&#8217;s Brackley headquarters this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our drivers have contracts for two years, so we cannot consider any possibility,&#8221; Wolff is quoted by Marco Canseco, the correspondent for the Spanish sports daily Marca.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Alonso, Wolff answered: &#8220;Everyone knows that he is one of the best drivers on the grid, and one that fits with what Mercedes wants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we already have two of the best,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg will remain paired at Mercedes for at least the next two years. That is the claim of boss and team co-owner Toto Wolff, on the heels of a wave of speculation about the future lineup of the currently dominant F1 outfit. Earlier, Wolff played down reports Mercedes could be eyeing &#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":[5262,149,5340,154,4835,4,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271"}],"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=22271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22272,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22271\/revisions\/22272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}