{"id":11896,"date":"2011-04-13T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11896"},"modified":"2011-04-13T06:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T10:56:18","slug":"sepang-fascinating-not-confusing-coulthard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sepang-fascinating-not-confusing-coulthard\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepang &#8216;fascinating&#8217; not confusing &#8211; Coulthard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Coulthard has scoffed at suggestions the Malaysian grand prix was too confusing a spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists but also some teams and drivers said after Sepang that it was difficult to understand the race as its 59 pitstops unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, you cannot win with some people,&#8221; former grand prix winner and now British television commentator Coulthard wrote in his Telegraph column.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First F1 is too boring, now it is too hectic.\u00a0 Personally, I found it fascinating watching the evolving strategies out there,&#8221; said the Scot.<\/p>\n<p>His commentary box sidekick Martin Brundle agreed, revealing that F1&#8217;s &#8220;Fleet Street boys&#8221; denounced the race as &#8220;totally confusing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told them DC and me were on top of it no problem,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t just the media concerned about the spectacle after Malaysia, with Felipe Massa admitting to Agencia Estado that &#8220;All the pitstops made it difficult for us to understand where the others are and what they are doing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Pirelli&#8217;s Paul Hembery thinks the situation will settle down as the season progresses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the teams will get used to it and learn more about how to use the tyres,&#8221; he told Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The teams have a lot of engineering ability and they will find the right setups and balance and adapt in terms of tyre life.\u00a0 The drivers will adapt their driving style.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to see in the middle of the season if the races are still the same,&#8221; added motor sport director Hembery.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Coulthard has scoffed at suggestions the Malaysian grand prix was too confusing a spectacle. Journalists but also some teams and drivers said after Sepang that it was difficult to understand the race as its 59 pitstops unfolded. &#8220;Honestly, you cannot win with some people,&#8221; former grand prix winner and now British television commentator Coulthard &#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],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11896"}],"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=11896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11897,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11896\/revisions\/11897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}