{"id":3688,"date":"2010-03-24T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2010-03-24T07:21:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:21:52","slug":"hamilton-senses-webber-close-to-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-senses-webber-close-to-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton senses Webber close to retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mark Webber could be planning to hang up his formula one helmet at the end of 2010, Lewis Hamilton said in Sydney on Wednesday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After taking the helm of a racing yacht for a sponsor event on famous Sydney Harbour, the 2008 world champion suggested to reporters that Australian driver Webber&#8217;s ninth home race this weekend might be his last.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how long he plans to stay in formula one but I get the sense that it&#8217;s one of the years he wants to finish on top and perhaps call it a day,&#8221; Hamilton, who drives for McLaren, is quoted as saying by the AAP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Webber, 33, drives for Red Bull, whose 2010 car was described by Hamilton earlier this week as &#8220;ridiculously&#8221; fast.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding on Webber&#8217;s possible retirement, Hamilton added: &#8220;He has the best chance to end on that high this year and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if he is considering it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It has been rumoured that Red Bull, already with the 2007 world champion under contract in world rallying, could install Kimi Raikkonen as Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s teammate in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Webber&#8217;s contract runs out at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber could be planning to hang up his formula one helmet at the end of 2010, Lewis Hamilton said in Sydney on Wednesday. \u00a0 After taking the helm of a racing yacht for a sponsor event on famous Sydney Harbour, the 2008 world champion suggested to reporters that Australian driver Webber&#8217;s ninth home race &#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":[5262,5261,154,165],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688"}],"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=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3689,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}