{"id":22049,"date":"2014-05-24T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22049"},"modified":"2014-05-24T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T15:52:10","slug":"lauda-rules-out-replacing-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lauda-rules-out-replacing-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauda rules out replacing Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda on Saturday ruled out replacing Bernie Ecclestone as F1 supremo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-persons\/Niki-Lauda-2.jpg\" alt=\"Niki-Lauda-2\" width=\"466\" height=\"310\" \/>Embroiled in a bribery scandal, the sport&#8217;s current chief executive on Friday actually named Lauda, the great triple world champion and Mercedes team chairman, as a potential successor who could potentially be named &#8220;tomorrow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lauda doesn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I will not be boss of formula one!&#8221; the F1 legend told German newspaper Bild.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a job at Mercedes with a contract that goes up to and including 2017.\u00a0 Anyway, I do not think about things that will not happen,&#8221; said Lauda.<\/p>\n<p>But what about when that Mercedes contract expires?\u00a0 By then, Ecclestone will be a ripe 87.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Completely excluded,&#8221; Lauda insists.\u00a0 &#8220;I was never asked if I want to be Bernie&#8217;s successor.\u00a0 Period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Auto Motor und Sport quotes him as also saying: &#8220;You might as well ask me if I am flying to the moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda on Saturday ruled out replacing Bernie Ecclestone as F1 supremo. Embroiled in a bribery scandal, the sport&#8217;s current chief executive on Friday actually named Lauda, the great triple world champion and Mercedes team chairman, as a potential successor who could potentially be named &#8220;tomorrow&#8221;. Lauda doesn&#8217;t think so. &#8220;No, I will not be &#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":[59,5262,5340,598],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22049"}],"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=22049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22050,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22049\/revisions\/22050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}