{"id":19248,"date":"2013-09-11T07:12:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T11:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19248"},"modified":"2013-09-11T07:12:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T11:12:33","slug":"haug-tips-mercedes-to-fight-for-2014-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/haug-tips-mercedes-to-fight-for-2014-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Haug tips Mercedes to fight for 2014 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beating Red Bull to the world championship will now be &#8220;virtually impossible&#8221; for rival teams, former Mercedes boss Norbert Haug admits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Norbert-Haug-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Norbert-Haug-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>But the 60-year-old, who was replaced as the German marque&#8217;s motor racing president by Toto Wolff for 2013 and beyond, tipped Mercedes to give the reigning world champions a run for their money next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Mercedes will be very well positioned,&#8221; Haug told Servus TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It also took Red Bull five years to build the team.\u00a0 This is the fourth one for Mercedes and I think so far everything is on schedule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe next year will be for fighting for the world title,&#8221; he told the Austrian broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the Servus TV programme, Haug was asked about Gerhard Berger&#8217;s recent claim that pursuing more overtaking with the &#8216;DRS&#8217; innovation was a mistake for F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was pursued for good intentions,&#8221; Haug agreed, &#8220;but in retrospect, you have to wonder if it is still real overtaking when one has his wing open and the other does not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was done at a time when the races were boring, but maybe now we could say that we overshot the target,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beating Red Bull to the world championship will now be &#8220;virtually impossible&#8221; for rival teams, former Mercedes boss Norbert Haug admits. But the 60-year-old, who was replaced as the German marque&#8217;s motor racing president by Toto Wolff for 2013 and beyond, tipped Mercedes to give the reigning world champions a run for their money next &#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":[5262,5340,258,34,242,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248"}],"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=19248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19249,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19248\/revisions\/19249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}