{"id":3878,"date":"2010-03-29T06:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2010-03-29T06:50:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:50:50","slug":"mclaren-supercar-caused-mercedes-split-haug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-supercar-caused-mercedes-split-haug\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren supercar caused Mercedes split &#8211; Haug"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mercedes-Benz split with McLaren due to the British team&#8217;s efforts to built its own road supercar.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That is according to the German marque&#8217;s motor sport chief Norbert Haug, after Mercedes took over the Brawn team and then started to sell back its 40 per cent share in McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>Headed by Ron Dennis, McLaren Automotive recently launched the production MP4-12C supercar, powered by a bespoke engine.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Spain&#8217;s El Pais newspaper why McLaren and Mercedes decided to part ways in F1, Haug answered: &#8220;McLaren wanted to go in their own direction with their street sports car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Mercedes we have been doing it for many years.\u00a0 It (McLaren&#8217;s) was not our way and we found an amicable solution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to supply them with engines but we have created our own team.\u00a0 We are grateful about our many joint successes &#8212; only Ferrari was more successful than us (McLaren-Mercedes),&#8221; Haug added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz split with McLaren due to the British team&#8217;s efforts to built its own road supercar.<\/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":[5262,5261,5284,350,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878"}],"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=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}