{"id":12446,"date":"2011-05-23T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12446"},"modified":"2011-05-23T07:41:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:41:01","slug":"alonso-angry-with-pirelli-after-spanish-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-angry-with-pirelli-after-spanish-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso angry with Pirelli after Spanish struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso was angry with Pirelli after Sunday&#8217;s Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>To the delight of the partisan Spanish crowd, the Ferrari driver audaciously led at the start but ultimately finished a lap down and fifth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The superhard tyres &#8230; it&#8217;s a question for the Pirelli guys,&#8221; Alonso told EFE news agency after the Barcelona race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why did they bring a harder tyre that grips less than the other one, degrades more and goes two seconds slower?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pirelli motor sport director Paul Hembery, however, insisted he was pleased in Spain, despite agreeing that four pitstops per driver is still too many.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was fantastic,&#8221; he said of the developed hard tyre.\u00a0 &#8220;There was zero wear, but of course you had to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did not want to see four pitstops (per driver), but you have to look at the leaders, who lapped the entire field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is difficult for us to develop a tyre strategy that covers everybody,&#8221; he is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>He said one solution to the four-stop problem would be, when the hard tyre is to be supplied, for Pirelli to drop the soft tyre and replace it with the medium.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso was angry with Pirelli after Sunday&#8217;s Spanish grand prix. To the delight of the partisan Spanish crowd, the Ferrari driver audaciously led at the start but ultimately finished a lap down and fifth. &#8220;The superhard tyres &#8230; it&#8217;s a question for the Pirelli guys,&#8221; Alonso told EFE news agency after the Barcelona race. &#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":[5262,149,93,5340,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446"}],"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=12446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12447,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions\/12447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}