{"id":287488,"date":"2025-07-24T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287488\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:51:11","slug":"can-mercedes-up-its-game-sufficiently-to-make-a-driver-signing-sensation-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287488\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Mercedes up its game sufficiently to make a driver-signing sensation happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction among Formula 1 aficionados to Christian Horner\u2019s recent dismissal from his post at Red Bull, after 20 years in charge, has been interesting to browse.<\/p>\n<p>Why, some have asked, is Toto Wolff still in charge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mercedes\/36495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercedes<\/a> given its precipitous slide from outright dominance to three straight seasons in the upper midfield?<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reaction among Formula 1 aficionados to Christian Horner\u2019s recent dismissal from his post at Red Bull, after 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,4859,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-287488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-mercedes","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114907361081912084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}