{"id":4858,"date":"2010-04-30T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2010-04-30T06:23:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:23:46","slug":"hakkinen-to-become-hamiltons-new-manager-soon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hakkinen-to-become-hamiltons-new-manager-soon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakkinen to become Hamilton&#8217;s new manager soon &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours have intensified this week that Mika Hakkinen could soon become Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s manager.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the McLaren driver&#8217;s professional split with his father Anthony, 25-year-old Briton Hamilton has been perusing offers from potential managers.<\/p>\n<p>1998 and 199 world champion Hakkinen, 41, already works with a young F3 driver at his own manager Didier Coton&#8217;s Monaco based Aces Group, and said last Sunday: &#8220;Perhaps I will come back to F1 as a manager.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Italian sports daily Tuttosport now reports that the formalisation of a deal between Aces\/Hakkinen and Hamilton could be made in the very near future.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton&#8217;s career is currently handled by McLaren, but team boss Martin Whitmarsh is pushing his driver to appoint a &#8220;dispassionate, independent&#8221; manager.<\/p>\n<p>Hakkinen won his two world championships with McLaren and retired in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours have intensified this week that Mika Hakkinen could soon become Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s 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":[5262,5261,5340,154,491,310],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858"}],"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=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4859,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions\/4859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}