{"id":2872,"date":"2010-03-03T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2010-03-03T06:50:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:50:43","slug":"hakkinen-or-brundle-to-be-hamiltons-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hakkinen-or-brundle-to-be-hamiltons-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakkinen or Brundle to be Hamilton&#8217;s new manager?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mika Hakkinen could become Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s new manager.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It emerged this week that Hamilton, 25, will no longer be handled professionally by his father Anthony.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Finn Hakkinen, who is 41, retired from F1 after the 2001 season with two drivers&#8217; world championships under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>The former McLaren driver is now part of the Monaco based sports management Aces Group, which is run by his own long-time manager Didier Coton.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Daily Mail said Hakkinen and Hamilton &#8220;get on well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is up to Lewis and the team,&#8221; Frenchman Coton told the newspaper.\u00a0 &#8220;He is taken good care of as it is (by McLaren).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if I was asked to get involved I would definitely be interested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another potential manager for Hamilton is Martin Brundle, who formerly handled David Coulthard&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail said the 1994 McLaren driver and BBC commentator was &#8220;non-committal&#8221; when contacted but is said to be a definite contender.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mika Hakkinen could become Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s new manager. \u00a0 It emerged this week that Hamilton, 25, will no longer be handled professionally by his father Anthony.<\/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":[5262,154,322,310],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872"}],"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=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}