{"id":20798,"date":"2014-01-24T07:02:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T12:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20798"},"modified":"2014-01-24T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T12:02:36","slug":"sam-michael-tipped-to-be-new-mclaren-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sam-michael-tipped-to-be-new-mclaren-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Michael tipped to be new McLaren boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Whitmarsh will not be present as McLaren&#8217;s 2014 car is launched on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Martin-Whitmarsh-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Martin-Whitmarsh-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is the claim of Britain&#8217;s Daily Mail newspaper, following reports the team&#8217;s F1 boss for the past five years will also not attend the forthcoming Jerez test.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail said the launch absence will effectively confirm Briton Whitmarsh&#8217;s demise, following what the Telegraph describes as the &#8220;internal coup&#8221; that led to McLaren supremo Ron Dennis regaining full control.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting director Sam Michael is being tipped to step into the team principal role, after the 42-year-old Australian &#8211; and not Whitmarsh &#8211; was quoted in the statement announcing Stoffel Vandoorne as 2014 reserve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whitmarsh has not even been in the team&#8217;s Woking headquarters since Ron Dennis wrested back overall control of formula one affairs last week,&#8221; said Daily Mail correspondent Jonathan McEvoy.<\/p>\n<p>McEvoy tipped Whitmarsh to be &#8220;shuffled to another post within McLaren Group or out of the door altogether after five disappointing years in charge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Whitmarsh will not be present as McLaren&#8217;s 2014 car is launched on Friday. That is the claim of Britain&#8217;s Daily Mail newspaper, following reports the team&#8217;s F1 boss for the past five years will also not attend the forthcoming Jerez test. The Daily Mail said the launch absence will effectively confirm Briton Whitmarsh&#8217;s demise, &#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":[5262,5340,491,5284,1051,880,544],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798"}],"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=20798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20799,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798\/revisions\/20799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}