{"id":20074,"date":"2013-11-29T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20074"},"modified":"2013-11-29T08:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T13:06:27","slug":"mclaren-not-sure-mercedes-to-have-best-engine-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-not-sure-mercedes-to-have-best-engine-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren not sure Mercedes to have best engine in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Whitmarsh has admitted he is not sure if Mercedes will supply a &#8220;competitive&#8221; engine in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Martin-Whitmarsh-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Martin-Whitmarsh-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>According to the paddock grapevine, the German manufacturer has an early performance head-start over its turbo V6-producing rivals Renault and Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>But McLaren boss Whitmarsh, whose Woking based team will switch to works Honda power for 2015, said the rumours Mercedes will lead the game in 2014 cannot be verified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will we have a competitive drivetrain (in 2014)?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; he is quoted by Speed Week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are many people in the paddock who seem to know, but I don&#8217;t know where they could have got that information from,&#8221; added Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From what I know about Mercedes&#8217; resources and organisation, I am assuming that they have done a good job,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that we will be competitive,&#8221; said Whitmarsh.\u00a0 McLaren finished the 2013 season just fifth, having failed to score even a single podium.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Whitmarsh has admitted he is not sure if Mercedes will supply a &#8220;competitive&#8221; engine in 2014. According to the paddock grapevine, the German manufacturer has an early performance head-start over its turbo V6-producing rivals Renault and Ferrari. But McLaren boss Whitmarsh, whose Woking based team will switch to works Honda power for 2015, said &#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":[5262,5340,491,5284,8],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074"}],"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=20074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20075,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074\/revisions\/20075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}