{"id":545,"date":"2009-12-19T08:39:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T13:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=545"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:48:44","slug":"schumacher-to-race-mercedes-in-2010-montezemolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-to-race-mercedes-in-2010-montezemolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher to race Mercedes in 2010 &#8211; Montezemolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Montezemolo reveals Schumacher to race Mercedes in 2010<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nWhat began as a wild rumour has slowly edged towards near-fact: Michael Schumacher is returning to the formula one grid.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The hardening speculation has been all but confirmed by Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, with whom the 40-year-old German won five of his seven world championships until 2006. The Italian told international reporters at a Christmas dinner on Friday that, during a conversation with Ferrari adviser Schumacher earlier this week, &#8220;he told me there is a very strong possibility&#8221; he will race a Mercedes next year.<\/p>\n<p>Montezemolo joked that, after Schumacher renewed his consultancy contract for three additional years at Monza in mid September, the German set to be Nico Rosberg&#8217;s 2010 teammate is the Ferrari legend&#8217;s &#8220;twin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s another one who looks like him, 40, 41 years old, German, same name and decided to do a new career,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Montezemolo confirms that some of Ferrari&#8217;s passionate Tifosi will not appreciate the news that Schumacher will be wearing silver in 2010. &#8220;They think Michael is a traitor.\u00a0 But I will explain to them it is not Michael but another one.\u00a0 The real Michael is still with Ferrari.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher&#8217;s return is set to be announced either shortly after Christmas, or at the beginning of January.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montezemolo reveals Schumacher to race Mercedes in 2010 \u00a0 What began as a wild rumour has slowly edged towards near-fact: Michael Schumacher is returning to the formula one grid.<\/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":[53,3],"tags":[5262,93,148,34,92,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}