{"id":5696,"date":"2010-05-25T06:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2010-05-25T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T10:24:14","slug":"schumacher-denies-kart-race-hobby-too-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-denies-kart-race-hobby-too-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher denies kart race hobby too dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has denied that his ongoing hobby of semi-professional kart racing is an unnecessary risk.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Many F1 driver contracts forbid dangerous extra-curricular activities, but last weekend seven time world champion Schumacher was back at the wheel of a competitive kart.<\/p>\n<p>On the free weekend between the Monaco and Turkish grands prix, the 41-year-old German finished second in two DMV championship races at the Oppenrod circuit.<\/p>\n<p>To Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport, the highly-paid Mercedes driver played down suggestions he is risking injury by keeping up his hobby of kart racing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a few sports that are more dangerous than formula one,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but karting I would consider more on the safe side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher admitted that he contests kart races for &#8220;fun&#8221; but also argues that the discipline is good practice for his day-job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fun aspect is the most important.\u00a0 That&#8217;s really the only reason I do it,&#8221; said the German.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you learn here is not much help (for F1),&#8221; he admitted, &#8220;but you can do quite a lot of overtaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schumacher has denied that his ongoing hobby of semi-professional kart racing is an unnecessary risk.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,92],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696"}],"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=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}