{"id":7079,"date":"2010-07-16T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T10:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2010-07-16T06:57:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T10:57:20","slug":"briatore-to-benefit-if-webber-wins-title-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/briatore-to-benefit-if-webber-wins-title-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Briatore to benefit if Webber wins title &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flavio Briatore stands to benefit financially if Mark Webber wins the 2010 world championship, according to a German report.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Briatore, the crashgate conspirator and former Renault team boss, is still the Australian Red Bull driver&#8217;s manager.<\/p>\n<p>And amid reports the 60-year-old is attending a string of grands prix ahead of possibly assuming a future role alongside Bernie Ecclestone, Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper gives a different theory for Briatore&#8217;s presence.<\/p>\n<p>Bild said Webber&#8217;s contract extension for 2011 is for just 8 million euros, but that as champion the 33-year-old will be in a position to negotiate a much higher retainer, with &#8220;a 20 per cent commission for his manager&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After winning at Silverstone, and in the midst of the front wing saga, Webber revealed that he spoke to Briatore before the race &#8220;and he said &#8216;Mark, just make a good start&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bild said it suspects Briatore was behind Webber&#8217;s public comments including &#8220;not bad for a number two driver&#8221;, and &#8220;I would never have signed a contract again for next year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows that public pressure can bring his client a better deal,&#8221; said the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flavio Briatore stands to benefit financially if Mark Webber wins the 2010 world championship, according to a German report. Italian Briatore, the crashgate conspirator and former Renault team boss, is still the Australian Red Bull driver&#8217;s manager. And amid reports the 60-year-old is attending a string of grands prix ahead of possibly assuming a future &#8230;<\/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":[5262,252,5340,165],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079"}],"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=7079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7080,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7079\/revisions\/7080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}