{"id":2908,"date":"2010-03-04T16:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:40:42","slug":"michael-schumacher-would-have-driven-third-ferrari-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/michael-schumacher-would-have-driven-third-ferrari-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schumacher would have driven third Ferrari &#8211; manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Had Ferrari got the go-ahead to field a third Ferrari in 2010, Michael Schumacher would have driven it.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is the admission of the 41-year-old&#8217;s long time manager Willi Weber.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe had the third car been there, with all respect to Mercedes, Schumacher would have been promoting Ferraris, not Mercedes,&#8221; Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said in January.<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Germany&#8217;s Auto Bild, Weber confirmed Montezemolo&#8217;s suspicion by answering &#8220;of course&#8221; when asked if the offer of a third Ferrari would have taken precedence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The connection (with Ferrari) was and is extremely strong,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and so it was not a simple thing for him to separate from them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weber said 2010 with Mercedes is &#8220;an acclimatising year&#8221; for Schumacher, with the title the target for 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had Ferrari got the go-ahead to field a third Ferrari in 2010, Michael Schumacher would have driven it. \u00a0 That is the admission of the 41-year-old&#8217;s long time manager Willi Weber.<\/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":[5262,93,92,334],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908"}],"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=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}