{"id":10138,"date":"2010-12-15T07:05:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2010-12-15T07:05:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:05:28","slug":"alonso-vows-to-lose-weight-for-kers-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-vows-to-lose-weight-for-kers-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso vows to lose weight for KERS return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has joined Rubens Barrichello in vowing to lose some weight ahead of the 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p>As in 2009, the return of heavy KERS systems is once again putting a higher premium on driver weight, despite moves to further increase the overall car-plus-driver minimum weight.<\/p>\n<p>A report in Spain&#8217;s El Mundo Deportivo said Ferrari driver Alonso &#8211; who currently weighs in at 68 kilograms &#8211; wants to lose between 2 and 3 kg before Bahrain in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fans should get ready for me being thinner,&#8221; the 29-year-old smiled during Ferrari&#8217;s Christmas celebrations at Maranello.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the return of KERS, every kilo a driver can trim can be used as ballast.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m going to lose a little weight,&#8221; confirmed Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will also improve my athletic preparation for the longest championship in history because it will be necessary to be fully fit for ten months,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217; Barrichello admitted recently that his engineers had asked him to lose some weight before 2011 for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has joined Rubens Barrichello in vowing to lose some weight ahead of the 2011 season. As in 2009, the return of heavy KERS systems is once again putting a higher premium on driver weight, despite moves to further increase the overall car-plus-driver minimum weight. A report in Spain&#8217;s El Mundo Deportivo said Ferrari &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,149,93,5340,702],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10139,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions\/10139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}