{"id":5579,"date":"2010-05-20T06:57:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5579"},"modified":"2010-05-20T06:57:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:57:03","slug":"vw-may-enter-f1-with-audi-or-porsche-branding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vw-may-enter-f1-with-audi-or-porsche-branding\/","title":{"rendered":"VW may enter F1 with Audi or Porsche branding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A formula one foray for Volkswagen would probably see the Audi or Porsche names above the garage doors.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It has been reported for some time that the German carmaker giant is interested in entering the sport as an engine supplier but only if the FIA green-lights the touted &#8216;world engine&#8217; for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>As for the branding of the project, VW&#8217;s motor racing boss Kris Nissen said: &#8220;Within the group, for sure, it could be Audi, it could be Porsche and might also be Volkswagen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it would not suit so well Skoda or Seat or Bentley,&#8221; he is quoted as saying at last weekend&#8217;s Nurburgring 24 Hour race by the Brisbane Times.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota, however, is not interested in returning to formula one any time soon, after failing to win a single grand prix during its more than $3 billion F1 foray between 2002 and last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a big gap between formula one and Toyota&#8217;s actual car users,&#8221; former team principal Tadashi Yamashina is quoted by Automotive News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;F1 remains the pinnacle of auto racing, but its image grew too elitist,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A formula one foray for Volkswagen would probably see the Audi or Porsche names above the garage doors.<\/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":[1663,5262,5261,5340,1664,279,696],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579"}],"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=5579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}