{"id":11598,"date":"2011-03-21T07:04:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11598"},"modified":"2011-03-21T07:04:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:04:26","slug":"four-stops-in-2011-possible-but-unlikely-brawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/four-stops-in-2011-possible-but-unlikely-brawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Four stops in 2011 possible but unlikely &#8211; Brawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn is predicting a regular maximum of three-stop strategies in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the extreme degradation of new supplier Pirelli&#8217;s tyres, some of the sport&#8217;s figures were warning of the possible need to pit four or possibly even five times during a grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>But Mercedes team boss Brawn is quoted by the Melbourne Age newspaper: &#8220;If you get to four stops then possibly you are using the tyres a bit harder than you should and it would be quite hard to make up that extra pitstop time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brawn famously masterminded Michael Schumacher&#8217;s four-stop victory in France some years ago, but he thinks that many visits to the pits this year will be rare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does depend which track we are at because some tracks have much shorter pitstops than others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It depends on the circumstances but if your model shows four pitstops are faster as a race and you think you can drive to the speed available then you could see four pitstop races,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn is predicting a regular maximum of three-stop strategies in 2011. Due to the extreme degradation of new supplier Pirelli&#8217;s tyres, some of the sport&#8217;s figures were warning of the possible need to pit four or possibly even five times during a grand prix. But Mercedes team boss Brawn is quoted by the Melbourne &#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":[5262,5340,34,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598"}],"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=11598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11599,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions\/11599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}