{"id":15146,"date":"2012-02-08T06:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15146"},"modified":"2012-02-08T06:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T11:48:38","slug":"toro-rosso-counts-caterham-among-2012-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/toro-rosso-counts-caterham-among-2012-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Toro Rosso counts Caterham among 2012 rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toro Rosso counts Caterham &#8211; the 2010 start-up team that has failed to score a single point since inception &#8211; among its close rivals for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the Red Bull-owned rookie team Toro Rosso finished the championship in eighth place with 41 points, well clear of Williams and behind Sauber and Force India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our direct competitors are Sauber, Force India and Caterham,&#8221; the Faenza based team&#8217;s boss Franz Tost is quoted by autohebdo.fr.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly Lotus, the Tony Fernandes-led Caterham team has been the best of the new 2010 teams including Marussia (nee Virgin) and HRT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Caterham has managed to build a good infrastructure,&#8221; Tost is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have the Renault engine and a KERS from Red Bull and it means their package is good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have two experienced drivers and I expect they will become our rivals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal is to take seventh place in the championship &#8212; we must do better than last year,&#8221; added Tost.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toro Rosso counts Caterham &#8211; the 2010 start-up team that has failed to score a single point since inception &#8211; among its close rivals for 2012. Last season, the Red Bull-owned rookie team Toro Rosso finished the championship in eighth place with 41 points, well clear of Williams and behind Sauber and Force India. &#8220;Our &#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":[3021,5262,5340,910,62,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146"}],"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=15146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15147,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions\/15147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}