{"id":17625,"date":"2013-01-21T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17625"},"modified":"2013-01-21T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T11:55:02","slug":"williams-wolff-to-succeed-haug-at-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-wolff-to-succeed-haug-at-mercedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams&#8217; Wolff to succeed Haug at Mercedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toto Wolff, the Williams shareholder who manages Valtteri Bottas and only last July became an executive director, is leaving the Oxfordshire based team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Toto-Wolff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Toto-Wolff.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The mass-circulation German newspaper Bild reports that the 41-year-old Austrian, a former racing driver, is replacing the recently departed Norbert Haug as Mercedes&#8217; motor sport chief.<\/p>\n<p>He has almost certainly been appointed by the marque&#8217;s new F1 chairman Niki Lauda, the triple world champion who &#8211; like Wolff &#8211; is from Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n<p>As well as owning shares in Williams, Wolff also has a stake in HWA, the German company that runs Mercedes&#8217; DTM programme.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes would not comment, and neither would Williams.<\/p>\n<p>But Bild claimed the news is likely to be announced officially at the DTM test in Valencia, which starts on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reports estimate the value of Wolff&#8217;s Williams shareholding at up to EUR 40 million.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toto Wolff, the Williams shareholder who manages Valtteri Bottas and only last July became an executive director, is leaving the Oxfordshire based team. The mass-circulation German newspaper Bild reports that the 41-year-old Austrian, a former racing driver, is replacing the recently departed Norbert Haug as Mercedes&#8217; motor sport chief. He has almost certainly been appointed &#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":[5262,5340,8,598,242,5359,155],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625"}],"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=17625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17626,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625\/revisions\/17626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}