{"id":17403,"date":"2012-12-17T06:56:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17403"},"modified":"2012-12-17T06:56:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:56:54","slug":"mercedes-too-late-to-poach-boss-horner-marko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-too-late-to-poach-boss-horner-marko\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes &#8216;too late&#8217; to poach boss Horner &#8211; Marko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull has extended its contract with team boss Christian Horner, the energy drink company&#8217;s motor sport chief Dr Helmut Marko has claimed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Christian-Horner-1.jpg\" alt=\"Christian-Horner-1\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The news follows speculation at the weekend that, in the wake of Norbert Haug&#8217;s shock departure at Mercedes, the German marque had targeted Briton Horner as a potential successor.<\/p>\n<p>Bild newspaper claims Horner&#8217;s name was definitely discussed during Mercedes&#8217; latest board meeting in Stuttgart last week.<\/p>\n<p>But Austrian Marko insisted: &#8220;Horner has extended his contract with us last week, by several years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mercedes is too late,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bild said it is likely Haug&#8217;s old role will be divided in two, with a German to run the DTM division and someone else taking over responsibility for F1 at Brackley.<\/p>\n<p>The report said: &#8220;Schumacher is not available.\u00a0 He has no interest in the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull has extended its contract with team boss Christian Horner, the energy drink company&#8217;s motor sport chief Dr Helmut Marko has claimed. The news follows speculation at the weekend that, in the wake of Norbert Haug&#8217;s shock departure at Mercedes, the German marque had targeted Briton Horner as a potential successor. Bild newspaper claims &#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":[128,1628,5262,5340,8,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17403"}],"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=17403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17404,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17403\/revisions\/17404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}