{"id":26440,"date":"2015-01-08T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=26440"},"modified":"2015-01-08T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T12:00:11","slug":"new-hamilton-contract-will-happen-lauda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-hamilton-contract-will-happen-lauda\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hamilton contract &#8216;will happen&#8217; &#8211; Lauda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda has played down the chance Fernando Alonso will join Mercedes next year.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, team boss Toto Wolff caused a stir when he said Spaniard Alonso, who has just joined McLaren-Honda, tops the shortlist in the event that Hamilton&#8217;s negotiations to extend his contract beyond this year ultimately fail.<\/p>\n<p>But triple world champion Lauda, who was instrumental in luring Hamilton from McLaren at the end of the 2012 season, now insists the talks with the newly 30-year-old Briton will result in a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not worried,&#8221; he is quoted by SID news agency.\u00a0 &#8220;Both sides want to renew, so it will happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in no hurry,&#8221; Lauda added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda has played down the chance Fernando Alonso will join Mercedes next year. Last week, team boss Toto Wolff caused a stir when he said Spaniard Alonso, who has just joined McLaren-Honda, tops the shortlist in the event that Hamilton&#8217;s negotiations to extend his contract beyond this year ultimately fail. But triple world champion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,154,598],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440"}],"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=26440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26441,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26440\/revisions\/26441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}