{"id":16815,"date":"2012-10-11T07:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2012-10-11T07:15:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:15:52","slug":"lauda-makes-a-move-to-poach-newey-marko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lauda-makes-a-move-to-poach-newey-marko\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauda makes a move to poach Newey &#8211; Marko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda has already made a move on Adrian Newey.<\/p>\n<p>Austrian great Lauda, having negotiated Mercedes&#8217; new Concorde Agreement and wooed Lewis Hamilton to the German squad, has also joined the team as non-executive chairman.<\/p>\n<p>And according to Red Bull&#8217;s Dr Helmut Marko, &#8220;Herr Lauda has been looking into how long Adrian Newey still has a contract with us&#8221;, he is quoted by Bild newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Briton Newey, F1&#8217;s most respected car designer and aerodynamicist who reportedly makes EUR 8 million a year at Red Bull, is under contract until 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an existing contract to be complied with,&#8221; insisted Marko, who is team owner Dietrich Mateschitz&#8217;s right-hand man on F1 matters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And what would he (Newey) do at Mercedes anyway?\u00a0 With Ross Brawn there are three other technical directors.\u00a0 Too many chiefs and not enough Indians,&#8221; Marko insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Austrian Marko said Newey has not been Mercedes&#8217; only target.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They also wanted to have Vettel,&#8221; he alleged.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda has already made a move on Adrian Newey. Austrian great Lauda, having negotiated Mercedes&#8217; new Concorde Agreement and wooed Lewis Hamilton to the German squad, has also joined the team as non-executive chairman. And according to Red Bull&#8217;s Dr Helmut Marko, &#8220;Herr Lauda has been looking into how long Adrian Newey still has &#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":[396,262,1628,5262,5340,598,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815"}],"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=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16816,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions\/16816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}