{"id":297700,"date":"2025-07-28T05:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297700\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:31:10","slug":"the-positive-effects-of-horners-red-bull-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297700\/","title":{"rendered":"the positive effects of Horner&#8217;s Red Bull departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call it the clearance of a bottleneck if you will. And \u201cbottlenecking\u201d was certainly a word new Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Laurent Mekies used during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, a curious form of gerund in which the noun is deployed as a verb rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>When the FIA published its schedule of press conferences, in which Friday\u2019s team representatives session featured Mekies on the sofa alongside Jonathan Wheatley \u2013 formerly Red Bull sporting director, now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/sauber\/36476\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sauber<\/a> team principal \u2013 certain comedians in the media centre proposed a \u2018dare\u2019. Would anyone ask Wheatley if he now regretted leaving Red Bull last year, since the top job might now have been his?<\/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":"Call it the clearance of a bottleneck if you will. And \u201cbottlenecking\u201d was certainly a word new Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[102345,102346,4199,707,4200,4856,749,4858,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-297700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-belgian-gp","9":"tag-circuit-de-spa-francorchamps","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-rb","14":"tag-red-bull-racing","15":"tag-sauber","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114929224089860757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297700","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=297700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}