{"id":18225,"date":"2013-05-08T06:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T10:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18225"},"modified":"2013-05-08T06:57:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T10:57:31","slug":"mercedes-not-ruling-out-indy-500-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-not-ruling-out-indy-500-le-mans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes not ruling out Indy 500, Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toto Wolff is not ruling out a return for Mercedes in the future to the fabled Indy 500 and Le Mans races.<\/p>\n<p>The German marque&#8217;s new motor sport chief, Austrian Wolff told Italy&#8217;s Autosprint that his immediate goal is for Mercedes to &#8220;finish among the top four&#8221; in this year&#8217;s F1 season.<\/p>\n<p>But when asked specifically about a possible return for Mercedes to the Indy 500 and Le Mans, Wolff admitted: &#8220;Basically, we would look at any racing category.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would have to make sense for the Mercedes brand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we&#8217;re focusing on formula one, the DTM, and we also do GT3 cars and build engines for formula 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for the future, I don&#8217;t rule out anything,&#8221; added Wolff.\u00a0 &#8220;I think it would be wonderful to go back to Indy and Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But just for the moment, we have our programme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toto Wolff is not ruling out a return for Mercedes in the future to the fabled Indy 500 and Le Mans races. The German marque&#8217;s new motor sport chief, Austrian Wolff told Italy&#8217;s Autosprint that his immediate goal is for Mercedes to &#8220;finish among the top four&#8221; in this year&#8217;s F1 season. But when asked &#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":[5262,5340,3091,137,8,34,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225"}],"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=18225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18226,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions\/18226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}