{"id":458658,"date":"2023-09-09T21:14:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458658"},"modified":"2023-09-09T21:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T17:14:13","slug":"marko-apologises-for-the-comments-about-perez","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/marko-apologises-for-the-comments-about-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"Marko apologises for the comments about Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko, 1 of the crucial figures in the great Formula 1 team, apologised for blaming Perez&#8217;s poor form on his ethnicity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Helmut Marko has apologized for his statements about Checo:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Concerning my remark about Sergio Perez, ServusTV Sport and Talk, Monday September 4: I would like to apologise for my offensive remark and want to make it absolutely clear that I do not believe that we can\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AIdY2oWOiu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AIdY2oWOiu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RBR Daily (@RBR_Daily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBR_Daily\/status\/1700162860121309430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Austrian, an ex-racer who was a close friend of the team\u2019s late owner Dietrich Mateschitz, published an apologetic statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to apologise for my offensive language and clarify that it has nothing to do with which country, race, or ethnicity the people are, and that has nothing to do with their performances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was trying to make a point that <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/formula-1\/driver\/sergio-perez\/\">Sergio Perez<\/a> has fluctuated in his performance this campaign, but it was wrong to talk about that this has anything do to with his ethnicity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Helmut shared that after the end of last week\u2019s Italian GP at Monza. Marko has also referred to Checo as a South American on previous occasions, despite Perez being Mexican and part of North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko, 1 of the crucial figures in the great Formula 1 team, apologised for blaming Perez&#8217;s poor form on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":458659,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,20747,17768],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[20748,19064,1081],"acf":{"announce":"Helmut is sorry for what he said about Sergio.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458663,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458658\/revisions\/458663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458658"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458658"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}