{"id":20054,"date":"2013-11-27T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20054"},"modified":"2013-11-27T07:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:45:58","slug":"horner-as-ecclestones-successor-a-joke-montezemolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/horner-as-ecclestones-successor-a-joke-montezemolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Horner as Ecclestone’s successor a joke – Montezemolo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luca di Montezemolo has dismissed as a “joke” Bernie Ecclestone’s claim that Christian Horner is his ideal successor as F1 supremo.<\/p>\n

\"Luca-di-Montezemollo-1\"Amid the Ecclestone corruption affair, and the 83-year-old’s advancing years, it is believed the sport’s owner CVC would prefer to headhunt from outside the sport.<\/p>\n

But, even though Horner subsequently reaffirmed his commitment to Red Bull, F1 chief executive Ecclestone said last week that he would be “happy” to help the 40-year-old find his feet in charge of the sport.<\/p>\n

And when asked about his comments this week by Spain’s Marca newspaper, Ecclestone answered: “He (Horner) is an intelligent man and I think he would get on with all the people he would have to.”<\/p>\n

When asked about Ecclestone’s apparent naming of his chosen future successor, Ferrari president Montezemolo told Italian television Rai Uno that it was a joke.<\/p>\n

“As the years go by, he more and more enjoys making jokes and I’m happy he still has the desire to do so.”<\/p>\n

Montezemolo also questioned Ecclestone’s nomination of Red Bull’s new quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel as better even than F1 legend Ayrton Senna.<\/p>\n

“Ecclestone says what suits him,” he answered, “but there is no doubt he (Vettel) is a great driver.\u00a0 He is a serious young man who has won a lot and therefore he deserves respect.”<\/p>\n

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Luca di Montezemolo has dismissed as a “joke” Bernie Ecclestone’s claim that Christian Horner is his ideal successor as F1 supremo. Amid the Ecclestone corruption affair, and the 83-year-old’s advancing years, it is believed the sport’s owner CVC would prefer to headhunt from outside the sport. But, even though Horner subsequently reaffirmed his commitment to …<\/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":[59,128,5262,4340,5340,148,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054"}],"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=20054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20055,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions\/20055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}