{"id":3415,"date":"2010-03-18T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2010-03-18T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:35:46","slug":"mercedes-denies-it-didnt-want-to-supply-red-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-denies-it-didnt-want-to-supply-red-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes denies it didn&#8217;t want to supply Red Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mercedes has denied Helmut Marko&#8217;s claim the German marque &#8220;didn&#8217;t want&#8221; to supply Red Bull with engines in 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr Marko, the motor sport advisor to Dietrich Mateschitz, said this week that Mercedes rejected Red Bull&#8217;s approaches because &#8220;they knew that if we had that engine, they wouldn&#8217;t see us (on the track)&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But a Mercedes spokesman told the Cologne newspaper Express: &#8220;McLaren was (our) exclusive partner and did not agree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mercedes would have leased its engine to Red Bull, and these facts are well known to Red Bull,&#8221; the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman also rejected Austrian former GP driver Marko&#8217;s claim that Mercedes has eked out an unfair engine advantage despite the freeze on performance development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything that our engineers do is strictly in conformity with the regulations and with the knowledge of the FIA.\u00a0 The FIA would gladly confirm this,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes has denied Helmut Marko&#8217;s claim the German marque &#8220;didn&#8217;t want&#8221; to supply Red Bull with engines in 2010. \u00a0 Dr Marko, the motor sport advisor to Dietrich Mateschitz, said this week that Mercedes rejected Red Bull&#8217;s approaches because &#8220;they knew that if we had that engine, they wouldn&#8217;t see us (on the track)&#8221;.<\/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":[5262,5300,641,8,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415"}],"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=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}