{"id":11209,"date":"2011-02-23T06:45:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11209"},"modified":"2011-02-23T06:45:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T11:45:32","slug":"new-mercedes-quickest-in-straight-line-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-mercedes-quickest-in-straight-line-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mercedes quickest in straight line &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes might not have the fastest car overall for 2011, but the W02 is the quickest in a straight line.<\/p>\n<p>That is the finding of Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport, after the team&#8217;s Norbert Haug admitted in Barcelona last weekend that the car would struggle to finish in the top ten if a race were held now.<\/p>\n<p>But the German media report insists that Brackley based Mercedes actually made a solid step forward last week and is &#8220;the leader in terms of top speed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Haug, admitting that a straightline advantage is &#8220;important&#8221; in light of the close combat expected in 2011, is also sounding more positive than earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because we were able to do more laps (in Barcelona), we understand the car and the tyres better.\u00a0 And that brings us laptime,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Following the cancellation of the pre-race test in Bahrain, the teams&#8217; last outing before Australia will now take place in Barcelona next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If everything goes in the right direction, the Silver Arrow may surprise you,&#8221; warned Haug.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes might not have the fastest car overall for 2011, but the W02 is the quickest in a straight line. That is the finding of Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport, after the team&#8217;s Norbert Haug admitted in Barcelona last weekend that the car would struggle to finish in the top ten if a race were &#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":[5262,5340,34,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209"}],"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=11209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11210,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209\/revisions\/11210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}