{"id":5575,"date":"2010-05-20T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2010-05-20T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:53:07","slug":"lauda-apologised-after-kubica-polack-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lauda-apologised-after-kubica-polack-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauda apologised after Kubica &#8216;Polack&#8217; slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda apologised personally to Robert Kubica in Monaco last weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Former triple world champion Lauda, whose straight-talking assessments are still heard at every grand prix, referred to the Renault driver live on German television as &#8220;der Polack&#8221; (the Polack).<\/p>\n<p>Polack is a derogatory reference to a Polish person, and even more offensive within Germany given the 1939 Nazi invasion that marked the start of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport said officials of the German TV station RTL demanded that Lauda, 60, apologise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to say to Robert that it was meant in a nice way,&#8221; said the Austrian.\u00a0 &#8220;I was just happy that he drove his car onto the front row.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lauda reportedly waited for 15 minutes at the Renault motor home on Sunday morning and did apologise publicly to the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niki Lauda apologised personally to Robert Kubica in Monaco last weekend.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,598,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575"}],"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=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5576,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}