{"id":17383,"date":"2012-12-13T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17383"},"modified":"2012-12-13T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T00:02:57","slug":"haug-to-leave-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/haug-to-leave-mercedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Haug to leave Mercedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug is leaving his role as Mercedes&#8217; motor sport chief &#8220;by mutal agreement&#8221; at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Norbert-Haug.jpg\" alt=\"Norbert-Haug\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>A statement issued by the German carmaker said that, after his more than two decades in the role, the 60-year-old&#8217;s contract is ending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preparations for the forthcoming season continue as planned,&#8221; Thursday&#8217;s announcement read.<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not give a reason for Haug&#8217;s sudden departure, or who might replace him.<\/p>\n<p>But in late September, triple world champion Niki Lauda joined the board of Mercedes&#8217; Brackley based works F1 team as non-executive chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The great Austrian said recently: &#8220;(Team boss) Ross (Brawn) has not been in danger and he never will be.\u00a0 He&#8217;s the boss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just the head of the supervisory board.\u00a0 I just have to look at everything and ask &#8216;What are the strengths, what are the weaknesses?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug is leaving his role as Mercedes&#8217; motor sport chief &#8220;by mutal agreement&#8221; at the end of this month. A statement issued by the German carmaker said that, after his more than two decades in the role, the 60-year-old&#8217;s contract is ending. &#8220;Preparations for the forthcoming season continue as planned,&#8221; Thursday&#8217;s announcement read. The &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,8,34,598,242,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383"}],"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=17383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17384,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions\/17384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}