{"id":11328,"date":"2011-03-03T06:37:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T11:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11328"},"modified":"2011-03-03T06:37:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T11:37:06","slug":"montezemolo-slams-martian-f1-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/montezemolo-slams-martian-f1-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezemolo slams &#8216;martian&#8217; F1 rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luca di Montezemolo has hit out at F1&#8217;s new regulations, saying steering wheels have become &#8220;martian&#8221; whilst criticising the new adjustable rear wing.<\/p>\n<p>According to Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat, the Ferrari president&#8217;s &#8220;martian&#8221; description is a reference to the new steering wheels adorned with even more buttons than before to trigger KERS systems and the moving rear wings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current regulations have nothing to do with F1,&#8221; said the Italian at the Geneva motor show, also continuing to criticise the testing ban.<\/p>\n<p>Montezemolo said Ferrari&#8217;s loss of the 2010 title at the final hurdle was like &#8220;missing a penalty kick with no goalkeeper&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York Times, however, he is much more upbeat about the carmaking world at present after the slump of recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you smell the atmosphere,&#8221; said Montezemolo at the Geneva convention centre, &#8220;it is far better than a few years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca di Montezemolo has hit out at F1&#8217;s new regulations, saying steering wheels have become &#8220;martian&#8221; whilst criticising the new adjustable rear wing. According to Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat, the Ferrari president&#8217;s &#8220;martian&#8221; description is a reference to the new steering wheels adorned with even more buttons than before to trigger KERS systems and the moving &#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":[5262,93,5340,148],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328"}],"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=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11329,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions\/11329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}