{"id":21666,"date":"2014-04-19T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21666"},"modified":"2014-04-19T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T13:13:09","slug":"lauda-denies-80hp-advantage-for-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lauda-denies-80hp-advantage-for-mercedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauda denies 80hp advantage for Mercedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda has rejected suggestions Renault is trailing the pace by a figure of 80 horse power.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-persons\/Niki-Lauda-2.jpg\" alt=\"Niki-Lauda-2\" width=\"493\" height=\"328\" \/>Red Bull&#8217;s Dr Helmut Marko has mentioned the figure &#8211; dominant Mercedes&#8217; supposed advantage with its field-leading turbo V6 &#8211; on several occasions in the past weeks.<\/p>\n<p>But Lauda, the Mercedes team chairman, said on Saturday: &#8220;How can anyone really know?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The answer is that no one knows the horse power figures; not Mercedes, not Renault, not Ferrari,&#8221; he told German television RTL in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all know roughly what our engines are producing, but not the differences,&#8221; triple world champion Lauda continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can make an estimate based on GPS data,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and how fast the cars are on the straight, but it also depends on whether the tyres are working, whether the aerodynamics are right &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many factors come together that you can&#8217;t clearly say that someone has 20 horse power more, or 80.\u00a0 We cannot judge that,&#8221; added Lauda.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda has rejected suggestions Renault is trailing the pace by a figure of 80 horse power. Red Bull&#8217;s Dr Helmut Marko has mentioned the figure &#8211; dominant Mercedes&#8217; supposed advantage with its field-leading turbo V6 &#8211; on several occasions in the past weeks. But Lauda, the Mercedes team chairman, said on Saturday: &#8220;How can &#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":[1628,5262,5340,4835,598,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666"}],"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=21666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21667,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666\/revisions\/21667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}