{"id":8705,"date":"2010-09-30T08:39:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=8705"},"modified":"2010-09-30T08:39:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:39:19","slug":"difficult-season-making-mercedes-grumpy-haug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/difficult-season-making-mercedes-grumpy-haug\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficult season making Mercedes &#8216;grumpy&#8217; &#8211; Haug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug has admitted that Mercedes might line up on the 2011 grid with some new employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2011 we will make a step forward.\u00a0 So we need to have the best possible staff, which may include some new people,&#8221; he is quoted by the Cologne newspaper Express.<\/p>\n<p>But amid rumours it might be Ross Brawn or Michael Schumacher who depart, the Mercedes competition director insisted the famous duo are actually going nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2011 the drivers are Michael and Nico Rosberg,&#8221; Haug announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we believe in Ross and his team,&#8221; added the German, amid rumours of tension between Brackley in the UK and Mercedes GP&#8217;s German side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just know what victory feels like, so perhaps we are sometimes a bit grumpy,&#8221; said Haug, explaining the apparent tension in the paddock at present.<\/p>\n<p>One answer might be to plough more money into the team, or make a big offer for a high profile signing like Adrian Newey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course we could put another 10 million euros into F1, but we don&#8217;t want to,&#8221; said Haug.<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug has admitted that Mercedes might line up on the 2011 grid with some new employees. &#8220;In 2011 we will make a step forward.\u00a0 So we need to have the best possible staff, which may include some new people,&#8221; he is quoted by the Cologne newspaper Express. But amid rumours it might be Ross &#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":[5262,5340,34,92,4,242,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705"}],"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=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions\/8706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}