{"id":20014,"date":"2013-11-23T07:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20014"},"modified":"2013-11-23T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:55:04","slug":"horner-reaffirms-commitment-after-ecclestone-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/horner-reaffirms-commitment-after-ecclestone-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner &#8216;reaffirms commitment&#8217; after Ecclestone comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has had to &#8220;reaffirm his commitment&#8221; to Red Bull after Bernie Ecclestone named him as his ideal successor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Christian-Horner-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Christian-Horner-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>F1 &#8216;supremo&#8217; Ecclestone, caught up in a corruption scandal that could end his long reign over the sport, said of his 40-year-old ally and friend: &#8220;I would be happy to hold his (Horner&#8217;s) hand.\u00a0 We could have a transitional period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments were interpreted as a clear sign that Ecclestone, 83, is paving the road for Horner to succeed him, but Red Bull issued a statement from Interlagos insisting its team boss &#8220;has a long term contract&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And Horner was quoted as saying: &#8220;While Bernie&#8217;s comments in the press are very flattering, I am fully focused on my role as team principal with Red Bull Racing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have said many times that there is only one Bernie Ecclestone.\u00a0 What he has done for formula one is incredible and in my opinion he is irreplaceable,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has had to &#8220;reaffirm his commitment&#8221; to Red Bull after Bernie Ecclestone named him as his ideal successor. F1 &#8216;supremo&#8217; Ecclestone, caught up in a corruption scandal that could end his long reign over the sport, said of his 40-year-old ally and friend: &#8220;I would be happy to hold &#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":[59,128,5262,5340,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014"}],"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=20014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20015,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions\/20015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}