{"id":20070,"date":"2013-11-28T07:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20070"},"modified":"2013-11-28T07:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T12:10:03","slug":"mercedes-confirms-brawn-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-confirms-brawn-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes confirms Brawn exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted, Mercedes on Thursday confirmed reports team boss Ross Brawn is stepping down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Ross-Toto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Ross-Toto.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>In a media statement, the Brackley based team said the 58-year-old, to officially depart Mercedes on the last day of the year, &#8220;has chosen to hand over&#8221; the reigns to Toto Wolff and Paddy Lowe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have had long discussions with Ross about how he could continue with the team,&#8221; said chairman Niki Lauda, &#8220;but it is a basic fact that you cannot hold somebody back when they have chosen to move on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brawn&#8217;s next step is not known, but it is believed he will take a few months off before possibly returning to F1 with McLaren&#8217;s 2015 engine supplier, Honda.<\/p>\n<p>He was also spotted meeting with Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali last weekend at the Brazilian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted, Mercedes on Thursday confirmed reports team boss Ross Brawn is stepping down. In a media statement, the Brackley based team said the 58-year-old, to officially depart Mercedes on the last day of the year, &#8220;has chosen to hand over&#8221; the reigns to Toto Wolff and Paddy Lowe. &#8220;We have had long discussions with &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[2059,5262,5340,34,598,551,35,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070"}],"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=20070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20071,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions\/20071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}