{"id":18514,"date":"2013-06-13T06:57:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T10:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18514"},"modified":"2013-06-13T06:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T10:57:56","slug":"todt-moving-to-replace-whiting-with-ascanelli-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/todt-moving-to-replace-whiting-with-ascanelli-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Todt moving to replace Whiting with Ascanelli &#8211; rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the FIA readies to analyse a possible breach of the official rules, Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild claims Mercedes also broke an explicit gentleman&#8217;s agreement between the teams when it ran its &#8216;secret&#8217; test in May.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Jean-Todt-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Jean-Todt-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The magazine published a copy of the signed &#8216;Testing Agreement 2013&#8242;, featuring the signature of every team boss, including the under-fire Ross Brawn.<\/p>\n<p>The document shows that F1&#8217;s eleven teams agreed that in the event Pirelli wanted to run development testing for 2014, any test would have to be jointly approved by the testing committee &#8211; the teams &#8211; and the FIA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The document raises massive questions about Mercedes&#8217; credibility,&#8221; said Sport Bild.<\/p>\n<p>And according to another German publication, Brawn&#8217;s job might not be the only one in doubt over the &#8216;test-gate&#8217; affair.<\/p>\n<p>Auto Motor und Sport reports rumours that FIA president Jean Todt is moving to replace race director Charlie Whiting &#8211; who supposedly told Brawn the highly controversial Barcelona test would be in compliance &#8211; with Giorgio Ascanelli.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Ascanelli is a highly experienced F1 engineer who most recently was Toro Rosso&#8217;s technical director.<\/p>\n<p>But a paddock voice said: &#8220;That (replacing Whiting) would be the most stupid thing Todt could do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Charlie has the most difficult job in the world, and he does it well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner made clear that although the FIA will also have Pirelli in the dock on June 20, its real gripe is with Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our issue is nothing to do with Pirelli,&#8221; he is quoted by the Mirror.\u00a0 &#8220;It is about a current entrant breaking the rules by using a current car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the FIA readies to analyse a possible breach of the official rules, Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild claims Mercedes also broke an explicit gentleman&#8217;s agreement between the teams when it ran its &#8216;secret&#8217; test in May. The magazine published a copy of the signed &#8216;Testing Agreement 2013&#8242;, featuring the signature of every team boss, including the &#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":[4509,810,5262,5300,5340,571,284,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514"}],"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=18514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18515,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18514\/revisions\/18515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}