{"id":10556,"date":"2011-01-17T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2011-01-17T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:10:14","slug":"vodafone-asked-for-berlin-launch-mclaren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vodafone-asked-for-berlin-launch-mclaren\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone asked for Berlin launch &#8211; McLaren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren has cleared up a burning question about the reason for its launch in the German capital this year.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the sport&#8217;s media wondered solely about why the MP4-26 is being revealed after the first group test, another intrigue has surrounded the reason for its launch in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The British team announced last week that the car will only be seen for the first time on February 4 at the plush Kaisersaal venue, with invited media to be chartered free of charge from London.<\/p>\n<p>Following a period of uncertainty and speculation about the reasons for the Berlin launch, engineering director Paddy Lowe explained: &#8220;It&#8217;s at the request of Vodafone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>London-based telecommunications giant Vodafone is McLaren&#8217;s title sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Added Lowe: &#8220;They want to launch in Berlin as part of Vodafone Germany operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren has cleared up a burning question about the reason for its launch in the German capital this year. While most of the sport&#8217;s media wondered solely about why the MP4-26 is being revealed after the first group test, another intrigue has surrounded the reason for its launch in Berlin. The British team announced last &#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":[5262,5340,5284,551,5309],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556"}],"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=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10557,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions\/10557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}