{"id":3692,"date":"2010-03-24T20:22:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2010-03-24T20:24:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:24:42","slug":"a-lot-of-interest-to-be-manager-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/a-lot-of-interest-to-be-manager-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A lot&#8217; of interest to be manager &#8211; Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lewis Hamilton has revealed he received &#8220;a lot&#8221; of applications to become his new manager.<!--more--><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It emerged before the 2010 season opener that the McLaren driver will no longer be handled professionally by his father Anthony.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Brundle and Mika Hakkinen were both touted as potential replacements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, I have received a lot of applications but I&#8217;m not in a hurry to decide,&#8221; the 25-year-old Briton said on Wednesday in a joint interview with F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am with a fantastic team, with many competent people, so at the moment I have no need for a manager,&#8221; Hamilton told F1&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone, 79, advised Hamilton to remain unrepresented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A driver doesn&#8217;t need a manager,&#8221; said the sport&#8217;s &#8216;supremo&#8217;, who joked that he has offered to manage Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gerhard Berger is the prime example of that.\u00a0 He managed himself and was making more money than anybody else at the time he was racing,&#8221; Ecclestone added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has revealed he received &#8220;a lot&#8221; of applications to become his new manager.<\/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":[59,5262,5261,258,154,322,5284,310],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692"}],"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=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}