{"id":3716,"date":"2010-03-25T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2010-03-25T07:13:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:13:29","slug":"coulthard-expects-to-agree-2010-dtm-race-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/coulthard-expects-to-agree-2010-dtm-race-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coulthard expects to agree 2010 DTM race deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">David Coulthard has hinted he is close to agreeing a deal to race with Mercedes in the German touring car series DTM in 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a couple of tests with the marque, it was suggested the Scot&#8217;s move might have been thwarted by the strained relationship at present between Mercedes and Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing left to do is to sit down with Norbert Haug to complete the final details,&#8221; said the former grand prix driver, who turns 39 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It was suggested Red Bull, with whom Coulthard is seen at grands prix, was unhappy after Mercedes recently inked a sponsorship contract with rival energy drinks brand Monster.<\/p>\n<p>But Coulthard suggests that his DTM ride is still on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe I will get a chance this weekend in Australia to try to talk to him (Haug).\u00a0 Failing that, it will be before the (DTM) season opener in Hockenheim (in late April).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A handshake is enough for me to seal an agreement,&#8221; added the Scot.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch press reports said Coulthard will continue to travel to the grands prix as an expert pundit for British television.<\/p>\n<p>Ralf Schumacher has now signed up for another DTM season, and other F1 names in the 2010 series are McLaren reserve Gary Paffett and Force India&#8217;s Friday driver Paul di Resta.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Coulthard has hinted he is close to agreeing a deal to race with Mercedes in the German touring car series DTM in 2010.<\/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":[410,409,8],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716"}],"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=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}