{"id":16906,"date":"2012-10-24T07:24:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16906"},"modified":"2012-10-24T07:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:24:51","slug":"mercedes-designing-completely-new-2013-car-lauda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-designing-completely-new-2013-car-lauda\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes designing &#8216;completely new&#8217; 2013 car &#8211; Lauda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is working on a &#8220;completely new car&#8221; for the 2013 season, Niki Lauda has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Lauda, the F1 legend and triple world champion, is Mercedes&#8217; brand new non-executive chairman &#8212; the main link between the Stuttgart carmaker and the Ross Brawn-led, UK-based team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012\/championship-f1-2012\/R12Bel-F1\/R12Bel-F1-07.jpg\" alt=\"R12Bel-F1-07\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>With this year&#8217;s W03, Nico Rosberg won in Shanghai and Michael Schumacher lapped the quickest in qualifying at Monaco, but otherwise the silver machine has often been a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>With the regulations staying essentially stable next year, ahead of the radical changes for 2014, most teams are working on evolutions of their current cars for next season.<\/p>\n<p>But with Lewis Hamilton arriving from McLaren for 2013, simply evolving the W03 is not going to be Mercedes&#8217; approach, Austrian Lauda suggested to the broadcaster RTL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working on a concept for a completely new car.\u00a0 The current one is simply not fast enough,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is working on a &#8220;completely new car&#8221; for the 2013 season, Niki Lauda has revealed. Lauda, the F1 legend and triple world champion, is Mercedes&#8217; brand new non-executive chairman &#8212; the main link between the Stuttgart carmaker and the Ross Brawn-led, UK-based team. With this year&#8217;s W03, Nico Rosberg won in Shanghai and Michael &#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":[5262,5340,154,34,92,4,598,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906"}],"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=16906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16907,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16906\/revisions\/16907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}