{"id":14565,"date":"2011-12-11T08:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T13:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14565"},"modified":"2011-12-11T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T13:16:06","slug":"horner-talks-peace-ahead-of-monday-fota-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/horner-talks-peace-ahead-of-monday-fota-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner talks peace ahead of Monday FOTA meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull has not ruled out patching up its off-track quarrel with rival formula one teams.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning and back-to-back world champions have pulled out of the F1 teams&#8217; alliance <em><strong><a title=\"FOTA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teamsassociation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOTA<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, essentially over the debate about the gentleman&#8217;s cost-limiting &#8216;resource restriction agreement&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent meetings have taken place in the absence of Red Bull and fellow new non-FOTA members Ferrari, Ferrari-powered Sauber and Red Bull junior team Toro Rosso, indicating a worrying political split ahead of the crucial negotiations for the next Concorde Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>But team boss Christian Horner has revealed that Red Bull officials will meet with key FOTA members on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing&#8217;s ever set in stone but for the time being we feel it&#8217;s right to step out of FOTA,&#8221; he is quoted by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>It has been rumoured that Red Bull baulked at moves to further limit the scope of aerodynamic development, whilst rival carmaker-linked teams remain less limited on engines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has to be a willingness to recognise this and then progress can be made,&#8221; Horner, speaking at Red Bull&#8217;s title celebratory event in Milton-Keynes, is quoted by the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>He said Ferrari and Red Bull&#8217;s withdrawal from FOTA &#8220;has stimulated discussion and that can lead to something positive.\u00a0 There is a way back for all of us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull has not ruled out patching up its off-track quarrel with rival formula one teams. The reigning and back-to-back world champions have pulled out of the F1 teams&#8217; alliance FOTA, essentially over the debate about the gentleman&#8217;s cost-limiting &#8216;resource restriction agreement&#8217;. Subsequent meetings have taken place in the absence of Red Bull and fellow &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[128,674,5262,5340,118,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565"}],"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=14565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14566,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565\/revisions\/14566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}