{"id":27987,"date":"2015-03-17T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T11:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=27987"},"modified":"2015-03-17T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T11:19:11","slug":"ecclestone-says-mercedes-had-v6-head-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-says-mercedes-had-v6-head-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone says Mercedes had V6 head-start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone claims Mercedes had a head-start over its engine rivals at the start of F1&#8217;s controversial turbo V6 era.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2015 season opener, the F1 supremo on Monday sided with furious Renault-powered Red Bull as the former champions urged F1&#8217;s governing body to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Ecclestone says Mercedes got a head-start over 2014 rivals Renault and Ferrari when the new engine rules were being devised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They knew a bit more about the (proposed) power unit,&#8221; he is quoted by Italy&#8217;s Sky Sport 24, &#8220;because the Mercedes people were in close contact with the FIA in defining the concept of this engine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is why they had such a strong start last year and they are keeping that advantage now,&#8221; the 84-year-old Briton added.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone said efforts to close Mercedes&#8217; huge advantage should now be made, even though he admitted that Renault, &#8220;who pushed for this revolution, have failed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone claims Mercedes had a head-start over its engine rivals at the start of F1&#8217;s controversial turbo V6 era. After the 2015 season opener, the F1 supremo on Monday sided with furious Renault-powered Red Bull as the former champions urged F1&#8217;s governing body to intervene. Now, Ecclestone says Mercedes got a head-start over 2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27987"}],"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=27987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27988,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27987\/revisions\/27988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}