{"id":14002,"date":"2011-10-22T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14002"},"modified":"2011-10-22T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T14:07:55","slug":"toro-rosso-eyed-di-resta-years-ago-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/toro-rosso-eyed-di-resta-years-ago-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"Toro Rosso eyed di Resta years ago &#8211; Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul di Resta&#8217;s formula one career almost got off to a flying start a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the 25-year-old Scot is only a rookie in 2011, and hoping to be given the green light to stay with Force India next season.<\/p>\n<p>His career however seemed on a fast track at the end of 2006, when he beat his teammate Sebastian Vettel to the coveted F3 Euroseries title.<\/p>\n<p>It was then that di Resta caught the attention of former Toro Rosso co-owner Gerhard Berger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Franz Tost and I considered signing him years ago,&#8221; the Austrian great revealed to Sportmagazin.\u00a0 &#8220;He has great potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is not Berger&#8217;s only regret from his days with Toro Rosso &#8212; another is signing the multiple Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was wrong about him,&#8221; said the former Ferrari and McLaren driver.\u00a0 &#8220;He came from America where he had won everything, but formula one was just too fast for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The late braking was too much for him,&#8221; added Berger.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul di Resta&#8217;s formula one career almost got off to a flying start a few years ago. Actually, the 25-year-old Scot is only a rookie in 2011, and hoping to be given the green light to stay with Force India next season. His career however seemed on a fast track at the end of 2006, &#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":[5262,5340,258,323,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002"}],"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=14002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14003,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions\/14003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}