{"id":9666,"date":"2010-11-15T07:04:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2010-11-15T07:04:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:04:40","slug":"red-bull-switch-not-tempting-for-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-switch-not-tempting-for-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull switch not tempting for Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a double championship defeat to Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel in 2010, Lewis Hamilton insists he is not tempted to switch to the energy drink-owned team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is not one bit of me that feels I will ever want to drive for Red Bull,&#8221; the Briton is quoted by the Mirror as saying in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t have the character, the history or the appeal to me that McLaren has,&#8221; added the 2008 world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, 25, finished the 2010 standings in fourth place, behind both Red Bulls and also his former McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso, who now drives for Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>But he insists that McLaren is his team of choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My hero Ayrton Senna drove for this team and I have always wanted to,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Red Bull have done a fantastic job and huge congratulations to them for winning the constructors&#8217; championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, I want my car to be as good as that.\u00a0 I could be here for the next 10 years in this team,&#8221; added Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe they have got the most potential out of everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a double championship defeat to Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel in 2010, Lewis Hamilton insists he is not tempted to switch to the energy drink-owned team. &#8220;There is not one bit of me that feels I will ever want to drive for Red Bull,&#8221; the Briton is quoted by the Mirror as saying in &#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":[5262,5340,154,5284,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666"}],"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=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9667,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions\/9667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}