{"id":3773,"date":"2010-03-26T07:04:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2010-03-26T07:04:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:04:12","slug":"ecclestone-predicts-long-second-career-for-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-predicts-long-second-career-for-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone predicts long second career for Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bernie Ecclestone does not expect Michael Schumacher to re-enter retirement at the end of his new three-year Mercedes contract.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After spending the 2007, 2008 and 2009 seasons on the sidelines in the wake of his ultra-successful first career, the 41-year-old decided to return to the sport this season.<\/p>\n<p>He has signed a three-year deal, and the German indicated in Melbourne on Thursday that he will return to his retirement when that period is over.<\/p>\n<p>When explaining why he has not rejoined the Grand Prix Drivers&#8217; Association, Schumacher said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not here for the long-term future, only for a limited time, (so) I don&#8217;t think I should get involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Ecclestone, F1&#8217;s chief executive, thinks Schumacher will change his mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think his new career will be long, maybe even ten years,&#8221; said the 79-year-old Briton in an interview with Italy&#8217;s Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes test driver Nick Heidfeld told the German newspaper AZ that he thinks Schumacher will continue to improve his pace over the next few races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michael got better during the Bahrain weekend, and he will continue to get better from now on,&#8221; said the German.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone does not expect Michael Schumacher to re-enter retirement at the end of his new three-year Mercedes contract.<\/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":[59,5262,5261,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773"}],"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=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}