{"id":10201,"date":"2010-12-21T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10201"},"modified":"2010-12-21T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T12:02:47","slug":"rule-changes-to-make-racing-spectacular-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rule-changes-to-make-racing-spectacular-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule changes to make racing &#8216;spectacular&#8217; &#8211; Alonso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has tipped key technical rule changes for 2011 to contribute to more &#8220;spectacular&#8221; racing.<\/p>\n<p>The Ferrari driver admitted that the return of energy-recovery KERS boost buttons next year, and the debut of moveable rear wings usable only by drivers who are closely chasing a rival, are &#8220;crucial&#8221; to the sport&#8217;s next season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each year there are rule changes to encourage overtaking, but I think that the ones in 2011 are really significant,&#8221; he is quoted by the Spanish media at an event involving Santander boss Emilio Botin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that, finally, it will be much easier to overtake and hopefully the racing will be spectacular,&#8221; Spaniard Alonso added.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what his personal goal for 2011 is, the 29-year-old admitted: &#8220;When you are at Ferrari, the world championship as a target is obligatory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have a better car than this year and the goal remains the same as always,&#8221; added Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know how difficult is our task because of the competitiveness of Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes, so we need to work hard to find something they do not have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Alonso was asked by a young questioner if he will be drinking Red Bull over the winter period to build his energy for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No &#8230; no,&#8221; he smiled.<br \/>\n\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has tipped key technical rule changes for 2011 to contribute to more &#8220;spectacular&#8221; racing. The Ferrari driver admitted that the return of energy-recovery KERS boost buttons next year, and the debut of moveable rear wings usable only by drivers who are closely chasing a rival, are &#8220;crucial&#8221; to the sport&#8217;s next season. &#8220;Each &#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":[3],"tags":[5262,149,93,5340,702,5284,34,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201"}],"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=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10202,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions\/10202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}