{"id":4156,"date":"2010-04-04T13:15:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2010-04-04T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:15:44","slug":"schumacher-believed-to-have-rejoined-gpda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-believed-to-have-rejoined-gpda\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher believed to have rejoined GPDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher is believed to have rejoined the F1 drivers&#8217; union GPDA during the course of the Malaysian GP weekend.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season, the returning 41-year-old hesitated to rejoin the Grand Prix Drivers Association, despite playing a leading role until his retirement at the end of 2006.<\/p>\n<p>It was rumoured that the Mercedes driver did not get along with the GPDA&#8217;s chairman Pedro de la Rosa, who quit the association in protest after Schumacher&#8217;s Monaco &#8216;Rascasse&#8217; parking incident four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In Melbourne, Spaniard de la Rosa stepped down and was replaced as chairman by Mercedes reserve driver Nick Heidfeld.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher&#8217;s countryman and friend Sebastian Vettel, and his former Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa, have also now replaced Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso as directors.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher&#8217;s spokeswoman Sabine Kehm was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher is believed to have rejoined the F1 drivers&#8217; union GPDA during the course of the Malaysian GP weekend.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,566,979,528,92,250],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156"}],"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=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}