{"id":6415,"date":"2010-06-17T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/formula-1\/heidfeld-could-split-mercedes-role-with-dtm-seat-in-2011\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T11:00:15","slug":"heidfeld-could-split-mercedes-role-with-dtm-seat-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/heidfeld-could-split-mercedes-role-with-dtm-seat-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidfeld could split Mercedes role with DTM seat in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld is tipped to combine an ongoing role as Mercedes&#8217; reserve driver next year with a race cockpit in the German touring car series DTM.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old said recently he wants to be back on the F1 grid in 2011 because &#8220;I feel too young for DTM or for taking part in Le Mans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But with many teams likely to secure unchanged driver lineups next year, Heidfeld admitted this week: &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid that the top ten seats are gone already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the Auto Plus column of the well-known French TF1 journalist-commentator Jean-Louis Moncet, veteran of 167 grands prix Heidfeld may be leaning towards a move to DTM.<\/p>\n<p>But Heidfeld would combine the 2011 seat, presumably in one of the Mercedes-powered DTM cars, with an ongoing role at grands prix, Moncet added.<\/p>\n<p>The same split is being managed this year by David Coulthard, who races a 2008 C-Class as well as attending F1 events as a British television pundit and occasional Red Bull reserve driver.<\/p>\n<p>However, Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper recently said Sauber, currently fielding Pedro de la Rosa alongside Kamui Kobayashi, could host Heidfeld&#8217;s return to formula one in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Heidfeld drove for the independent Sauber team between 2001 and 2003, and then again with BMW ownership in 2006-2009.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld is tipped to combine an ongoing role as Mercedes&#8217; reserve driver next year with a race cockpit in the German touring car series DTM. The 33-year-old said recently he wants to be back on the F1 grid in 2011 because &#8220;I feel too young for DTM or for taking part in Le Mans&#8221;. &#8230;<\/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":[409,5262,5340,98],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415"}],"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=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}