{"id":12505,"date":"2011-05-26T07:22:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12505"},"modified":"2011-05-26T07:22:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:22:51","slug":"drivers-to-keep-eye-on-repaired-monaco-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/drivers-to-keep-eye-on-repaired-monaco-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers to keep eye on repaired Monaco surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 drivers will be keeping an eye on the repaired track surface at Ste-Devote when they tackle the first corner at Monaco early on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A major truck fire earlier this week burned the asphalt in the braking and turn-in zone for the famous corner, and circuit organisers have laid a new patch of track in record time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I walked the circuit and it looked ok.\u00a0 It looked like they did a good job,&#8221; said Nick Heidfeld.<\/p>\n<p>Nico Rosberg thinks the only issue will be the seeping of oil because the asphalt is not fully cured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to see if it rains,&#8221; added Rubens Barrichello, &#8220;but I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any prediction of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul di Resta, who witnessed the fire as he recorded a circuit guide with British broadcasters BBC, also admitted he is slightly concerned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the heat we have now, with temperatures not going much below 20 degrees and with track temperature at 45 during the day, you have to wonder at how that&#8217;s going to cure,&#8221; said the Force India driver.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 drivers will be keeping an eye on the repaired track surface at Ste-Devote when they tackle the first corner at Monaco early on Thursday. A major truck fire earlier this week burned the asphalt in the braking and turn-in zone for the famous corner, and circuit organisers have laid a new patch of track &#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":[5262,5340,57,3110],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505"}],"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=12505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12506,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions\/12506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}