{"id":21680,"date":"2014-04-20T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21680"},"modified":"2014-04-20T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T14:17:11","slug":"whitmarsh-set-for-10m-mclaren-payout-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/whitmarsh-set-for-10m-mclaren-payout-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitmarsh set for $10m McLaren payout &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted boss Martin Whitmarsh could walk away from McLaren with a $10 million payout.<\/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\/Martin-Whitmarsh-1.jpg\" alt=\"Martin-Whitmarsh-1\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" \/>Last month, when Eric Boullier became the British team&#8217;s new chief in the wake of supremo Ron Dennis&#8217; return to power, it was rumoured Whitmarsh agreed not to speak to the media while his contract payout is negotiated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Martin is a friend,&#8221; Dennis said in March.\u00a0 &#8220;Some decisions you take in life are not that easy, and I will not elaborate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Daily Mail now reports that while Whitmarsh&#8217;s severance package is still being negotiated, it is &#8220;likely&#8221; to be around $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondent Jonathan McEvoy said the figure is more than $400,000 for each of the 24 years Whitmarsh served at McLaren.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted boss Martin Whitmarsh could walk away from McLaren with a $10 million payout. Last month, when Eric Boullier became the British team&#8217;s new chief in the wake of supremo Ron Dennis&#8217; return to power, it was rumoured Whitmarsh agreed not to speak to the media while his contract payout is negotiated. &#8220;Martin is a &#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":[251,5262,5340,491,5284,880],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680"}],"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=21680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21681,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680\/revisions\/21681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}