{"id":11426,"date":"2011-03-10T06:30:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T11:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11426"},"modified":"2011-03-10T06:30:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T11:30:44","slug":"new-mclaren-not-ready-to-win-title-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-mclaren-not-ready-to-win-title-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"New McLaren not ready to win title – Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton has admitted that McLaren’s 2011 car is currently not good enough to win the world championship.<\/p>\n

“That doesn’t mean it won’t become a world championship-winning car,” he told reporters at the Barcelona test, after completing just 57 laps due to technical problems with the MP4-26.<\/p>\n

Earlier, former McLaren driver and British commentator Martin Brundle described the car as “a mess”.<\/p>\n

“They (commentators) don’t drive it so they don’t know exactly how it is,” the 2008 world champion hit back.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t agree with what he says.\u00a0 The car feels better than last year’s car,” insisted Hamilton.<\/p>\n

But he reinforced teammate Jenson Button’s admission that it is not up to speed with the pacesetters Red Bull and Ferrari.<\/p>\n

“We definitely have the strength within the team to catch up,” said Hamilton.<\/p>\n

“It isn’t as fast as others are, but two years ago we were two or three seconds off the pace and now we are maybe a second (behind),” he added.<\/p>\n

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Lewis Hamilton has admitted that McLaren’s 2011 car is currently not good enough to win the world championship. “That doesn’t mean it won’t become a world championship-winning car,” he told reporters at the Barcelona test, after completing just 57 laps due to technical problems with the MP4-26. Earlier, former McLaren driver and British commentator Martin …<\/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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,154],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426"}],"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=11426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11427,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions\/11427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}