{"id":4788,"date":"2010-04-26T06:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2010-04-26T06:29:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:29:33","slug":"hakkinen-hints-at-f1-return-as-a-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hakkinen-hints-at-f1-return-as-a-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakkinen hints at F1 return &#8216;as a manager&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mika Hakkinen is considering a full-time return to premier motor racing &#8212; as a driver manager.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whilst backing his former title rival Michael Schumacher to return to top form and win a race on his 2010 comeback, the similarly 41-year-old Hakkinen also admits he still feels the lure of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I miss racing every day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very close to my heart,&#8221; said the double world champion, who raced in DTM between 2005 and 2007 after retiring from F1 at the end of 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The Finn told Germany&#8217;s Bild am Sonntag newspaper: &#8220;I&#8217;ll be back but I don&#8217;t know when or where.\u00a0 I just know that I will do it again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps I will come back to F1 as a manager,&#8221; added Hakkinen.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, he is also part of his own manager Didier Coton&#8217;s Aces Group company, and has been linked with Lewis Hamilton in the wake of the McLaren driver&#8217;s professional split with his father Anthony.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mika Hakkinen is considering a full-time return to premier motor racing &#8212; as a driver 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":[5262,5261,5340,310],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788"}],"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=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}