{"id":21051,"date":"2014-02-20T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21051"},"modified":"2014-02-20T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T12:24:12","slug":"red-bull-to-lose-title-sponsor-infiniti-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-to-lose-title-sponsor-infiniti-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull to lose title sponsor Infiniti &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull could be set to lose its major title sponsor Infiniti.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the world champion team is faltering on the pre-season test circuits, Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild reports that the luxury Nissan brand Infiniti does not intend to renew its Red Bull deal beyond 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Reports estimate the value of the deal, involving team naming rights and a conspicuous purple presence on the Red Bull livery, at EUR 40 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Infiniti is baulking because it wanted to move beyond being merely a financial partner to the top F1 team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that Infiniti had hopes for a greater technical cooperation,&#8221; Red Bull&#8217;s Dr Helmut Marko acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>Former F1 driver Gerhard Berger, a close confidante of team owner Dietrich Mateschitz, commented: &#8220;If anyone can overcome the loss of a sponsor, it is Red Bull.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull could be set to lose its major title sponsor Infiniti. Just as the world champion team is faltering on the pre-season test circuits, Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild reports that the luxury Nissan brand Infiniti does not intend to renew its Red Bull deal beyond 2015. Reports estimate the value of the deal, involving team &#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":[1628,5262,5340,4155,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051"}],"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=21051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21052,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051\/revisions\/21052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}