{"id":4202,"date":"2010-04-06T19:04:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2010-04-06T19:04:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T23:04:46","slug":"schumacher-has-rejoined-gpda-spokeswoman-kehm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-has-rejoined-gpda-spokeswoman-kehm\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher has rejoined GPDA &#8211; spokeswoman Kehm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Schumacher&#8217;s spokeswoman and day-to-day manager confirmed on Tuesday that the seven time world champion has rejoined the F1 drivers&#8217; union GPDA.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We reported on Sunday that the 41-year-old signed up during the course of the Sepang race weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Spokeswoman Sabine Kehm said last month that, with the German having played a leading role in the Grand Prix Drivers&#8217; Association in his initial career, Schumacher now wanted F1&#8217;s new generation to carry the baton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now he really wants the others, who have taken over in the meantime, to continue,&#8221; she said.<\/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>Kehm confirmed on Tuesday that Schumacher is once again a member of the GPDA.\u00a0 It is believed the only non-member on the grid now is Schumacher&#8217;s countryman Adrian Sutil.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher&#8217;s spokeswoman and day-to-day manager confirmed on Tuesday that the seven time world champion has rejoined the F1 drivers&#8217; union GPDA.<\/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":[5262,130,5261,5340,566,979,92,98,271,250,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202"}],"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=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4203,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}