{"id":17667,"date":"2013-01-26T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17667"},"modified":"2013-01-26T08:08:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T13:08:43","slug":"horner-not-the-only-team-boss-at-maranello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/horner-not-the-only-team-boss-at-maranello\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner not the only team boss at Maranello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner was not at Maranello recently to discuss his or Adrian Newey&#8217;s possible switch to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Christian-Horner-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Christian-Horner-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>When the Red Bull team boss was spotted at Ferrari&#8217;s fabled headquarters, it fired into action the speculative minds of the Italian and &#8211; in turn &#8211; the international press.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, according to German correspondent Michael Schmidt, also at Maranello for the very same meeting were Bernie Ecclestone, Martin Whitmarsh and Niki Lauda.<\/p>\n<p>They were sitting with Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, to discuss the incomplete 2013 Concorde Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>According to Auto Motor und Sport, the only document agreed so far is a &#8216;financial agreement&#8217;, with teams sharing 60 per cent of the sport&#8217;s revenue and top teams like Ferrari, Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes receiving an even bigger slice.<\/p>\n<p>But the governing FIA, pushing reportedly for a $40 million slice, is yet to sign, meaning that the processes for agreeing and enforcing rules are currently up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>A bone of contention is the issue of cost control, with the smaller teams pressing for a &#8216;budget cap&#8217;, and the bigger teams obviously not wanting to sign up to that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As long as there is no consensus,&#8221; wrote Schmidt, &#8220;there is a legal vacuum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner was not at Maranello recently to discuss his or Adrian Newey&#8217;s possible switch to Ferrari. When the Red Bull team boss was spotted at Ferrari&#8217;s fabled headquarters, it fired into action the speculative minds of the Italian and &#8211; in turn &#8211; the international press. Actually, according to German correspondent Michael Schmidt, also &#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":[1411,59,5262,93,5300,5340,148,491,5284,4286,598,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667"}],"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=17667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17668,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions\/17668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}