{"id":503778,"date":"2010-04-01T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/01\/mercedes-racing-chief-reportedly-attributes-mclaren-split-to-mp4\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:38:00","slug":"mercedes-racing-chief-reportedly-attributes-mclaren-split-to-mp4-12c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/503778","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes racing chief reportedly attributes McLaren split to MP4-12C"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Motorsports<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, Racing<\/a><\/p>\n

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McLaren MP4-12C – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nMercedes-Benz<\/a> and McLaren<\/a> used to be synonymous, both on the racing circuit with their Formula One collaboration as well as in the stratosphere of supercar-dom with the Mercedes SLR McLaren<\/a>. But that’s all in the history books now as the two outfits have gone their separate ways in both arenas.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For its part, Mercedes chose to go in-house with the SLS AMG<\/a>, the effective successor to the SLR McLaren, while McLaren has developed the new MP4-12C supercar in-house as well, right down to the engine. Meanwhile Mercedes bought the Brawn GP team and is selling its stake<\/a> in McLaren back to the team.<\/p>\n

So why the split? According to Norbert Haug (pictured at right with Daimler chairman Dr. Dieter Zetsche), the schism on both fronts came down to McLaren’s desire to produce the MP4-12C independently. With all the factors that lead to the breakup, pinpointing that one specifically seems a little far-fetched to us, but as Mercedes’ motorsport chief, we’d presume Haug knows what he’s talking about.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: McLaren MP4-12C At Company Unveiling<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Autocar<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Mercedes racing chief reportedly attributes McLaren split to MP4-12C<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Motorsports, Performance, Mercedes-Benz, Racing McLaren MP4-12C – Click above for high-res image gallery Mercedes-Benz and McLaren used to be synonymous, both on the racing circuit with their Formula One collaboration as well as in the stratosphere of supercar-dom with the Mercedes SLR McLaren. But that’s all in the history books now as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}