{"id":2736,"date":"2009-12-23T14:34:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T12:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2022-10-13T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:21:39","slug":"schumacher-returns-to-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/schumacher-returns-to-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher Returns to F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The living legend Michael Schumacher is returning to Formula 1 next season to drive for Mercedes, announced the German carmaker on Wednesday. \/ Schumacher Returns to F1<\/p>\n<p>The 40 year-old, 7 times drivers champion who retired in 2006 has agreed on a $10 million one-year contract and will be driving in the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix on March 14.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher will join countryman Nico Rosberg at Mercedes who took over Brawn GP team who won the constructors and drivers championship last season.<\/p>\n<p>Rosberg, signed for Mercedes after the final grand prix of the season in Abu Dhabi, and said to the German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung: &#8220;I have no idea if it (a comeback) is true or not, but if he did join that would be an absolutely fantastic move.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, who won five of his world titles with Ferrari, was almost going to drive for them in August after Felipe Massa was injured but this was not possible due to a neck injury that the German suffered in a motorcycle accident earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher has now fully recovered from his neck injury and is very close to a much anticipated comeback to the Formula 1 which he dominated for such a long time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"830\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r6aYcxqF6bc\" title=\"Michael Schumacher wins the 2000 Formula One World Championship!\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The living legend Michael Schumacher is returning to Formula 1 next season to drive for Mercedes, announced the German carmaker on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":2738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,209,118,156,14],"tags":[77189,3655,1675,3657,3656,3658,3654],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-formula-1","category-hot","category-motorsport","category-world","tag-formula-1","tag-living-legend-michael-schumacher","tag-michael-schumacher","tag-michael-schumacher-mercedes","tag-schumacher-drive-for-mercedes","tag-schumacher-return","tag-schumacher-returns-to-f1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}