{"id":1438,"date":"2010-01-12T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2010-01-12T06:08:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:08:10","slug":"mercedes-not-paying-schumachers-retainer-haug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-not-paying-schumachers-retainer-haug\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes not paying Schumacher&#8217;s retainer &#8211; Haug"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Norbert Haug has hit back at internal criticism about the decision to ramp up Mercedes-Benz&#8217;s formula one foray.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While fellow carmakers including Honda, BMW and Toyota have pulled out completely, and Renault scales back its involvement, Daimler-owned Mercedes opted instead to buy the Brawn team and then bring Michael Schumacher out of retirement.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the Brawn buyout, a member of Daimler&#8217;s supervisory board and Corporate Works Council Erich Klemm said Mercedes had missed a &#8220;chance to completely leave the costly and controversial circus (F1)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Then, after Schumacher was signed for 2010 for EUR7 million, another supervisory board member Uwe Werner said the decision was &#8220;hard to justify&#8221; amid the automobile world&#8217;s current crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But Mercedes&#8217; competition boss Haug told the SID news agency: &#8220;Both statements do not take into account that with its own team, Daimler will next year be spending about 60 per cent less compared to the peak in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With our new approach, within five years our costs have more than halved,&#8221; the German reiterated.<\/p>\n<p>Haug also revealed that, unlike at McLaren where Mercedes contributed half of the cost of driver salaries, the marque is in fact not spending a cent on the retainers paid this season to Schumacher and teammate Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In our formula one team, the drivers&#8217; salary comes only from our sponsor partners and the commercial rights holder FOM, not from Mercedes-Benz,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Haug said Mercedes&#8217; annual F1 budget is a two-digit million euro sum.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug has hit back at internal criticism about the decision to ramp up Mercedes-Benz&#8217;s formula one foray. \u00a0 While fellow carmakers including Honda, BMW and Toyota have pulled out completely, and Renault scales back its involvement, Daimler-owned Mercedes opted instead to buy the Brawn team and then bring Michael Schumacher out of retirement.<\/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":[53,3],"tags":[347,348,5262,317,34,350,92,4,242,349],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438"}],"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=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}