{"id":18596,"date":"2013-06-25T07:08:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T11:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18596"},"modified":"2013-06-25T07:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T11:08:23","slug":"illegal-test-threat-only-a-joke-marko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/illegal-test-threat-only-a-joke-marko\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal test threat only a joke &#8211; Marko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Helmut Marko has said he was only joking when he suggested Red Bull might boycott the young drivers test and use its race drivers at a private test.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Dr-Helmut-Marko\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Dr-Helmut-Marko.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>On Monday, following a report in The Times newspaper, the Austrian was moved to deny Red Bull was so furious at Mercedes&#8217; light penalty in the &#8216;tyre-gate&#8217; hearing that it was considering also breaking the rules to its advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course we wouldn&#8217;t break the rules,&#8221; Marko told Sport Bild.<\/p>\n<p>He told Germany&#8217;s Welt newspaper that he had only made the suggestion of mirroring Mercedes&#8217; illegal test because the benefits might outweigh the light penalty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was purely sarcastic,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to demonstrate that, with such a judgement (of the international tribunal), it might be worth the risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are frustrated that someone is found guilty on all counts and then sentenced to a punishment that they themselves proposed,&#8221; added Marko.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Welt correspondent Simon Pausch suggested that the only truly punished party in the entire affair is Mercedes test driver Sam Bird, who must now sit out next month&#8217;s Silverstone session.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Helmut Marko has said he was only joking when he suggested Red Bull might boycott the young drivers test and use its race drivers at a private test. On Monday, following a report in The Times newspaper, the Austrian was moved to deny Red Bull was so furious at Mercedes&#8217; light penalty in 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":[4510,1628,5262,5340,34,129,2401],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596"}],"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=18596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18597,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18596\/revisions\/18597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}