{"id":18683,"date":"2013-07-05T07:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18683"},"modified":"2013-07-05T07:17:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T11:17:33","slug":"audi-questions-sense-of-f1-for-carmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/audi-questions-sense-of-f1-for-carmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi questions &#8216;sense&#8217; of F1 for carmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audi chairman Rupert Stadler has played down suggestions a formula one foray should be considered by the Volkswagen-owned German carmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Audi&#8217;s repeat successes at the fabled Le Mans 24 hour race has sparked suggestions the Ingolstadt-based marque might now consider F1, particularly as the sport has now embraced modern engine and energy-recovery technology.<\/p>\n<p>So chairman Rupert Stadler was asked by the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche whether Audi or the similarly VW-linked Porsche might consider F1 after Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p>He answered: &#8220;It&#8217;s an interesting thought but, believe me, that&#8217;s not how the world of motor sport functions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We ask ourselves, particularly in these days, whether it makes sense to be in formula one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up to 90 per cent of everything discussed (in F1) is not about the manufacturers, but about the drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much is also talked about the tyres, and also the losers are discussed a lot, with pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only every now and then the involved automakers come into play, and not usually in a positive light,&#8221; Stadler added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audi chairman Rupert Stadler has played down suggestions a formula one foray should be considered by the Volkswagen-owned German carmaker. Audi&#8217;s repeat successes at the fabled Le Mans 24 hour race has sparked suggestions the Ingolstadt-based marque might now consider F1, particularly as the sport has now embraced modern engine and energy-recovery technology. So chairman &#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":[4534,5262,5340,2763,4533],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18683"}],"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=18683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18684,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18683\/revisions\/18684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}