{"id":16786,"date":"2012-10-09T07:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16786"},"modified":"2012-10-09T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T11:30:52","slug":"danner-tells-lauda-to-fire-mercedes-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/danner-tells-lauda-to-fire-mercedes-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Danner tells Lauda to fire Mercedes staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A German F1 pundit has advised Niki Lauda to take an axe to Mercedes&#8217; current personnel lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Lauda, the great Austrian triple world champion, has been signed on as Mercedes&#8217; non-executive chairman &#8212; effectively a decision-making link between the German marque&#8217;s Stuttgart headquarters and the racing team in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>So far, he has negotiated Mercedes&#8217; new Concorde Agreement deal and lured Lewis Hamilton onto the team for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>RTL commentator Christian Danner, a former driver, now wants Lauda to sack staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people who built this car should really all be fired,&#8221; he told Bild newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can&#8217;t be that you drive all around the world for nine months only to find that your car is as fast as a Toro Rosso,&#8221; added Danner.<\/p>\n<p>Danner said it is now up to Lauda to put things right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is responsible to make the next decisions.\u00a0 And those decisions will primarily be about the personnel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German F1 pundit has advised Niki Lauda to take an axe to Mercedes&#8217; current personnel lineup. Lauda, the great Austrian triple world champion, has been signed on as Mercedes&#8217; non-executive chairman &#8212; effectively a decision-making link between the German marque&#8217;s Stuttgart headquarters and the racing team in the UK. So far, he has negotiated &#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":[2542,5262,5340,34,598],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786"}],"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=16786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16787,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786\/revisions\/16787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}