{"id":15983,"date":"2012-05-11T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15983"},"modified":"2012-05-11T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T11:01:08","slug":"brawns-barcelona-absence-triggers-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/brawns-barcelona-absence-triggers-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawn&#8217;s Barcelona absence triggers rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of official information has triggered speculation about Ross Brawn&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Ross-Brown-3.jpg\" alt=\"Ross-Brown-3\" width=\"384\" height=\"263\" \/>And another rumour is that his absence in Barcelona could be connected with Mercedes&#8217; billion-dollar dispute with Bernie Ecclestone over the next Concorde Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The German squad announced on Thursday that Bob Bell is leading the team in Barcelona because regular boss Brawn is back in Britain on doctor&#8217;s orders.<\/p>\n<p>Bild newspaper said the 57-year-old was given the advice in hospital earlier this week, following a dizzy spell at his home in England.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more than the flu,&#8221; chief executive Nick Fry is quoted as saying, &#8220;but I can assure you that it&#8217;s nothing life threatening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a spokeswoman told us on Thursday that Brawn will be back to work at Monaco in a fortnight.<\/p>\n<p>For Spain, Brawn will watch the action on television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will still keep in touch,&#8221; Michael Schumacher revealed.\u00a0 &#8220;Ross cannot be replaced.\u00a0 That&#8217;s simply impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of official information has triggered speculation about Ross Brawn&#8217;s health. And another rumour is that his absence in Barcelona could be connected with Mercedes&#8217; billion-dollar dispute with Bernie Ecclestone over the next Concorde Agreement. The German squad announced on Thursday that Bob Bell is leading the team in Barcelona because regular boss Brawn &#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":[253,5262,5340,34,92,35,3740],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983"}],"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=15983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15984,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions\/15984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}