{"id":20614,"date":"2014-01-02T07:06:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T12:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20614"},"modified":"2014-01-02T07:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T12:06:19","slug":"brawn-exit-no-loss-to-f1-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/brawn-exit-no-loss-to-f1-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawn exit no loss to F1 &#8211; Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has played down the impact of Ross Brawn&#8217;s departure, insisting it is neither a loss to Mercedes or even formula one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Lewis-Hamilton-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Lewis-Hamilton-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Just a year after 2008 world champion Hamilton was enticed to switch from McLaren, 58-year-old Briton Brawn has stepped down as Brackley based Mercedes&#8217; team boss.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, though, says he is not worried.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I decided to go to Mercedes,&#8221; he is quoted by Brazil&#8217;s Totalrace, &#8220;I had much greater reasons than just him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, that he was there was a bonus, but after I arrived, I saw that the team had a lot of talented people,&#8221; added Hamilton, whose new team bosses will be Paddy Lowe and Toto Wolff, overseen by chairman Niki Lauda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Brawn) was a good boss, with a very good approach, which creates a great atmosphere in the team &#8212; but this is something that is expected of a leader,&#8221; Hamilton continued.<\/p>\n<p>Brawn has resolved to take a sabbatical from F1, and says he will only decide if he will come back in 2015 in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamilton, 28, said even a permanent exit from the sport for Brawn will not be a blow to F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sport will continue when any of us go,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;So no, I don&#8217;t see it as a loss for the sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has played down the impact of Ross Brawn&#8217;s departure, insisting it is neither a loss to Mercedes or even formula one. Just a year after 2008 world champion Hamilton was enticed to switch from McLaren, 58-year-old Briton Brawn has stepped down as Brackley based Mercedes&#8217; team boss. Hamilton, though, says he is not &#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":[5262,5340,154,598,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20614"}],"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=20614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20615,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20614\/revisions\/20615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}