{"id":12960,"date":"2011-06-29T07:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T11:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2011-06-29T07:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T11:05:32","slug":"f1-reliability-better-than-ever-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-reliability-better-than-ever-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 reliability better than ever in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technical reliability in formula one has taken a great leap forward in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday at Valencia was the first-ever 24-car finish in F1 history, with every competitor entered in the world championship making it to the chequered flag.<\/p>\n<p>And Germany&#8217;s Die Welt newspaper noted that in the eight races so far this season, there were only 18 technical failures, compared to 38 at the same point one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reliability is at least as important as speed,&#8221; said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, &#8220;and to be the best requires a combination of both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Jarno Trulli, a veteran driver who has spent the last season and a half at the back of the field with Team Lotus, is not so sure perfect reliability is good for F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I started racing (in F1), a driver knew how he&#8217;d start a race but not how he would finish it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This implies two things,&#8221; he wrote in a column for La Repubblica.\u00a0 &#8220;The first is that the chances for a small team to get in the points have sensibly reduced; the second is a further loss of appeal for F1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical reliability in formula one has taken a great leap forward in 2011. Last Sunday at Valencia was the first-ever 24-car finish in F1 history, with every competitor entered in the world championship making it to the chequered flag. And Germany&#8217;s Die Welt newspaper noted that in the eight races so far this season, there &#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\/12960"}],"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=12960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12961,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}