{"id":29176,"date":"2015-04-16T07:18:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T11:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=29176"},"modified":"2015-04-16T07:18:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T11:18:04","slug":"mercedes-denies-blocking-engine-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-denies-blocking-engine-rule-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes denies blocking engine rule changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes has hit back at Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s claim the German carmaker is &#8220;killing&#8221; formula one.<\/p>\n<p>The F1 supremo had made the comments in claiming that as he tries to fix the controversial engine regulations, dominant Mercedes is playing a spoiling role.<\/p>\n<p>But Niki Lauda, the Mercedes team chairman, takes issue with Ecclestone&#8217;s view.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We agreed to the token rule about developing in the season,&#8221; he told Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We gave the green light so that Honda gets the average number of tokens of the other three (suppliers),&#8221; Lauda added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we would also not be opposed to extending the engine allocation from four to five.\u00a0 That is even though all three measures are against our interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I don&#8217;t think Bernie can really accuse us of blocking everything,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes has hit back at Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s claim the German carmaker is &#8220;killing&#8221; formula one. The F1 supremo had made the comments in claiming that as he tries to fix the controversial engine regulations, dominant Mercedes is playing a spoiling role. But Niki Lauda, the Mercedes team chairman, takes issue with Ecclestone&#8217;s view. &#8220;We agreed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25377,"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\/29176"}],"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=29176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29177,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29176\/revisions\/29177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}