{"id":20704,"date":"2014-01-17T07:07:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20704"},"modified":"2014-01-17T07:07:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:07:13","slug":"dennis-returns-whitmarsh-future-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/dennis-returns-whitmarsh-future-in-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis returns, Whitmarsh future in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren is going back to the future with Ron Dennis, casting major doubt on the ongoing role of boss Martin Whitmarsh.<\/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\" \/>Whitmarsh took control after former long-time supremo Dennis&#8217; stepped down at the end of the &#8216;spy&#8217; and &#8216;lie&#8217; scandals five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But the British team announced on Thursday that Dennis is back as chief executive of the F1 division. The statement, making no mention of Whitmarsh, said further changes are looming.<\/p>\n<p>Many have linked former Mercedes chief Ross Brawn with the Woking based team, who will switch to works Honda power for 2015 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the coming weeks I intend to undertake a thorough and objective review of each of our businesses with the intention of optimising every aspect of our existing operations,&#8221; Dennis said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis&#8217; return follows McLaren&#8217;s dire 2013 season, and means Whitmarsh never succeeded in delivering a title as chief executive.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren is going back to the future with Ron Dennis, casting major doubt on the ongoing role of boss Martin Whitmarsh. Whitmarsh took control after former long-time supremo Dennis&#8217; stepped down at the end of the &#8216;spy&#8217; and &#8216;lie&#8217; scandals five years ago. But the British team announced on Thursday that Dennis is back as &#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":[5262,5340,491,5284,880,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20704"}],"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=20704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20705,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20704\/revisions\/20705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}