{"id":18140,"date":"2013-04-24T07:08:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18140"},"modified":"2013-04-24T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:08:06","slug":"f1-not-logical-for-porsche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-not-logical-for-porsche\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 &#8216;not logical&#8217; for Porsche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German carmaker Porsche has revealed it considered entering formula one.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the iconic marque is preparing to field a prototype design in the first-tier Le Mans-style sports car world championship in 2014, and Red Bull&#8217;s Mark Webber has been linked to the project.<\/p>\n<p>But Porsche executive Wolfgang Hatz told Autocar: &#8220;Porsche has always lived for the transfer of racing to production cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For that reason it was clear two or three years ago we had to be back in high-level motor sport, and it was a choice between top-flight sports cars or formula one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The final decision was the only logical one.\u00a0 F1 was an alternative, but the road relevance is not there,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hatz said there are other reasons Porsche decided against formula one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, there is a lot of publicity around politics and tyres, but not so much about the engines and chassis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aero, too, is incredible, but so extreme that it cannot result in any development in our road car understanding,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German carmaker Porsche has revealed it considered entering formula one. Instead, the iconic marque is preparing to field a prototype design in the first-tier Le Mans-style sports car world championship in 2014, and Red Bull&#8217;s Mark Webber has been linked to the project. But Porsche executive Wolfgang Hatz told Autocar: &#8220;Porsche has always lived for &#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":[5262,5340,279,4404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140"}],"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=18140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18141,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions\/18141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}