{"id":20794,"date":"2014-01-24T06:56:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T11:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20794"},"modified":"2014-01-24T06:56:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T11:56:58","slug":"mercedes-happy-about-ecclestones-lesser-f1-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-happy-about-ecclestones-lesser-f1-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes happy about Ecclestone&#8217;s lesser F1 role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes has welcomed Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s departure from the F1 board.<\/p>\n<p>The embattled 83-year-old Briton remains chief executive, but his decision-making power has been diminished while he faces criminal court in Germany over the bribery affair.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes, known for its sensitivity when it comes to ethical matters, welcomed Ecclestone&#8217;s diminished role at the top of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the start of the court procedures Bernie Ecclestone is suspending his duties as director of (F1 parent company) Delta Topco with immediate effect,&#8221; a spokesman for the German carmaker said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We welcome these measures,&#8221; the spokesman told F1 business journalist Christian Sylt, according to City A.M.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes has welcomed Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s departure from the F1 board. The embattled 83-year-old Briton remains chief executive, but his decision-making power has been diminished while he faces criminal court in Germany over the bribery affair. Mercedes, known for its sensitivity when it comes to ethical matters, welcomed Ecclestone&#8217;s diminished role at the top of the &#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":[59,2898,5262,5340,8],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794"}],"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=20794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20795,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions\/20795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}