{"id":32606,"date":"2016-01-21T20:09:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T01:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=32606"},"modified":"2016-01-21T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T01:09:44","slug":"f1-option-not-closed-for-merhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-option-not-closed-for-merhi\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 option &#8216;not closed&#8217; for Merhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Merhi is not giving up on formula one.<\/p>\n<p>El Confidencial, a Spanish newspaper, says the 24-year-old has been busily preparing for 2016, even though he lost his full-time Manor seat to the better-funded Alexander Rossi late last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been swimming, running, cycling.\u00a0 In February I will do some karting,&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>But it is in February that his old F1 rivals will be eagerly shaping up to return to their cockpits, for eight days of pre-season testing prior to the first race in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Backmarker Manor has confirmed that it will be at the opening test in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the possibility that his F1 adventure will continue this year, Merhi said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not closed.\u00a0 Not at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Merhi is managed by the former McLaren driver Mark Blundell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a couple of things that are being watched,&#8221; said Merhi, &#8220;but nothing concrete yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Merhi is not giving up on formula one. El Confidencial, a Spanish newspaper, says the 24-year-old has been busily preparing for 2016, even though he lost his full-time Manor seat to the better-funded Alexander Rossi late last season. &#8220;I have been swimming, running, cycling.\u00a0 In February I will do some karting,&#8221; he is quoted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,5165,2564,4364],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606"}],"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=32606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32608,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606\/revisions\/32608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}