{"id":6559,"date":"2010-06-25T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T22:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2010-06-25T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T22:22:49","slug":"mercedes-makes-offer-to-kubica-in-valencia-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-makes-offer-to-kubica-in-valencia-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes makes offer to Kubica in Valencia &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an Italian website, Mercedes wants to secure the services of Polish driver Robert Kubica.<\/p>\n<p>Omnicorse.it claims that on Friday in the Valencia paddock, a member of the German team made an offer to accommodate Kubica, 25, in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Kubica currently drives for Renault, and it had been expected he would remain with the team after Ferrari re-signed Felipe Massa for next year.<\/p>\n<p>But Omnicorse said it is possible Kubica will replace Michael Schumacher at Mercedes, even though the seven time world champion has a three year contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to the rumour, Kubica is being offered a generous retainer for three years, including the option of a further two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The report follows hot on the heels of stinging criticism of Schumacher&#8217;s lacklustre return to F1 this year after a three-year retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From inside the team we see things in a totally different perspective,&#8221; chief executive Nick Fry said in response to the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very comfortable with Michael&#8217;s performance and I can&#8217;t see any reason why he won&#8217;t come good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an Italian website, Mercedes wants to secure the services of Polish driver Robert Kubica. Omnicorse.it claims that on Friday in the Valencia paddock, a member of the German team made an offer to accommodate Kubica, 25, in 2011. Kubica currently drives for Renault, and it had been expected he would remain with the &#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":[5262,5340,34,92,116,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559"}],"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=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6560,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}