{"id":21575,"date":"2014-04-11T07:04:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21575"},"modified":"2014-04-11T07:04:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T11:04:24","slug":"marko-hopes-renault-engine-starts-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/marko-hopes-renault-engine-starts-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Marko hopes Renault engine &#8216;starts to work&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Renault cannot improve its engine, Mercedes will run away with the 2014 title.<\/p>\n<p>That is the warning of Dr Helmut Marko, an outspoken director of the Renault-powered reigning world champions Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Engine supplier Renault has improved its troubled new turbo V6 engine since a disastrous winter season, but Marko told German-language media that the French marque needs to work even more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If our engine starts to work, then we have the opportunity to be back at the top,&#8221; the blunt Austrian said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if it remains as it is now, then I have to congratulate (Mercedes team chairman) Niki (Lauda) that his two drivers will stay lost and lonely out the front.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marko said Red Bull has been working closer than ever with Renault to solve the problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have often been in France and know a lot more about modern engine technology,&#8221; he smiled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this emergency situation, we have made it an issue of Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Renault,&#8221; Marko revealed.\u00a0 &#8220;We have also included Styrian (Austrian) companies, because without Styria, nothing works,&#8221; he joked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We discovered a lot of mistakes and are now somewhat positive that we can make a strong step forward for the European races,&#8221; added Marko.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Renault cannot improve its engine, Mercedes will run away with the 2014 title. That is the warning of Dr Helmut Marko, an outspoken director of the Renault-powered reigning world champions Red Bull. Engine supplier Renault has improved its troubled new turbo V6 engine since a disastrous winter season, but Marko told German-language media that &#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],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21575"}],"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=21575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21576,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21575\/revisions\/21576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}