{"id":11223,"date":"2011-02-23T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11223"},"modified":"2011-02-23T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:20:24","slug":"renault-and-mercedes-trail-top-three-marko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-and-mercedes-trail-top-three-marko\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault and Mercedes trail top three &#8211; Marko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helmut Marko has backed paddock sentiment that Red Bull and Ferrari are heading into the 2011 season as the early favourites for the title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Red Bull and Ferrari are at eye-level,&#8221; the energy drink-owned team&#8217;s driver consultant told Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And McLaren has the potential to catch up before the start of the season,&#8221; added Marko.<\/p>\n<p>Another potential frontrunner is Renault, after Robert Kubica and then his replacement Nick Heidfeld so impressed at recent Spanish tests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Renault are showing they are a lot more competitive than they were last year,&#8221; Fernando Alonso said in a television interview, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p>German Heidfeld, however, is not quite as confident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My guess is that there are still some teams ahead of us &#8212; especially Red Bull,&#8221; he is quoted by F1&#8217;s official website on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Marko agrees: &#8220;Mercedes and Renault are not quite at the level of the top three.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helmut Marko has backed paddock sentiment that Red Bull and Ferrari are heading into the 2011 season as the early favourites for the title. &#8220;Red Bull and Ferrari are at eye-level,&#8221; the energy drink-owned team&#8217;s driver consultant told Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung. &#8220;And McLaren has the potential to catch up before the start of the &#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":[5262,5340,641],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223"}],"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=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11224,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions\/11224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}