{"id":669901,"date":"2026-05-14T07:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669901\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:17:18","slug":"exclusive-allan-mcnish-on-stepping-into-the-hot-seat-at-audi-and-the-teams-vision-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669901\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Allan McNish on stepping into the hot seat at Audi \u2013 and the team\u2019s vision for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">When Audi were in need of a replacement for Team Principal Jonathan Wheatley, they didn&#8217;t have to look very far. Allan McNish, who became their new Racing Director in time for the Miami Grand Prix earlier this month, had been with the brand in various guises for the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">That incredible association with the brand is why he sees the <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiYXVkaV9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mb3JtdWxhMS5jb20vZW4vdGVhbXMvYXVkaSIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/teams\/audi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Audi<\/a> F1 project as &#8220;part of me&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Audi were in need of a replacement for Team Principal Jonathan Wheatley, they didn&#8217;t have to look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-669901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}