{"id":16627,"date":"2012-09-18T20:11:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T00:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16627"},"modified":"2012-09-18T20:11:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T00:11:43","slug":"mateschitz-wants-renault-to-dump-alternator-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mateschitz-wants-renault-to-dump-alternator-supplier\/","title":{"rendered":"Mateschitz wants Renault to dump alternator supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull wants Renault to dump its alternator supplier.<\/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\/Newey-Mateschitz.jpg\" alt=\"Newey-Mateschitz\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The reigning champions have been dogged by a recurring reliability problem in 2012, which cost Sebastian Vettel victory at Valencia and crucial points at Monza.<\/p>\n<p>The faulty component, which has also failed in other Renault-powered cars this year including the Lotus and the Pirelli test car, is the alternator supplied by Italian company Magneti Marelli.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want Renault to separate from its supplier Magneti Marelli and use someone else,&#8221; Red Bull team boss Dietrich Mateschitz is quoted by Germany&#8217;s Auto Bild Motorsport.<\/p>\n<p>Renault Sport&#8217;s Remi Taffin confirmed that the French marque is considering its works partner&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a testy relationship between Red Bull and McLaren, it is believed one of the only ready alternatives to Magneti Marelli is McLaren Electronic Systems (MES).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull wants Renault to dump its alternator supplier. The reigning champions have been dogged by a recurring reliability problem in 2012, which cost Sebastian Vettel victory at Valencia and crucial points at Monza. The faulty component, which has also failed in other Renault-powered cars this year including the Lotus and the Pirelli test car, &#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":[262,5262,5340,1231,4029,129,911,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627"}],"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=16627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16628,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627\/revisions\/16628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}