{"id":11365,"date":"2011-03-07T06:27:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T11:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11365"},"modified":"2011-03-07T06:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T11:27:58","slug":"pirelli-making-f1-painfully-slow-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-making-f1-painfully-slow-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli making F1 &#8216;painfully slow&#8217; &#8211; Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula one has shifted down a gear for the 2011 season, according to Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The 2008 world champion says that although adjustable rear wings and KERS have upped the drivers&#8217; workload, the Pirelli tyres have made the cars slower.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did (a) run the other day and it was painfully slow, it really was.\u00a0 Just not exciting, to be honest,&#8221; the Briton is quoted by the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, whose boss Martin Whitmarsh last week urged the sport to ease its critique of F1&#8217;s new tyre supplier, is the latest voice to openly criticise Pirelli, revealing he was &#8220;down to the canvas&#8221; after a 9-lap run in testing.<\/p>\n<p>But like Whitmarsh, there are other supportive figures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want good and safe tyres, but with low durability for the races in the interests of the show,&#8221; Spain&#8217;s AS newspaper quotes Virgin technical director Nick Wirth as saying.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula one has shifted down a gear for the 2011 season, according to Lewis Hamilton. The 2008 world champion says that although adjustable rear wings and KERS have upped the drivers&#8217; workload, the Pirelli tyres have made the cars slower. &#8220;I did (a) run the other day and it was painfully slow, it really was.\u00a0 &#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":[5262,5340,154,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365"}],"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=11365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11366,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}