{"id":15856,"date":"2012-04-22T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15856"},"modified":"2012-04-22T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T11:24:09","slug":"alonso-hopes-season-starts-again-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-hopes-season-starts-again-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso hopes season &#8216;starts again&#8217; in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He may be in Bahrain, but Fernando Alonso&#8217;s mind is thinking firmly ahead to Europe as the Spaniard prepares to struggle on Sunday yet again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Fernando-Alonso-car.jpg\" alt=\"Fernando-Alonso-car\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Ferrari&#8217;s number one driver squeezed into Q3 with the struggling F2012 on Saturday, and is targeting some minor points on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two McLarens and the two Red Bulls are at the front, and there&#8217;s (also) Rosberg,&#8221; Alonso is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport, predicting how Sunday&#8217;s race will unfold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to go past them.\u00a0 For us, we are racing behind the top five.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is hoping it will be his latest and last experience of life as a midfielder in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>For Barcelona, the first European race of the season mid next month, Ferrari &#8211; so disappointed with its start to the season &#8211; is planning a major upgrade for the F2012.<\/p>\n<p>An added bonus is that it can be tested at Mugello in early May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite our problems I am in third place in the championship, and tomorrow (Sunday) I have a chance to score well.\u00a0 That&#8217;s more than we expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next is Barcelona, a most important race for us.\u00a0 I hope the season starts again for me (there),&#8221; said Alonso.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may be in Bahrain, but Fernando Alonso&#8217;s mind is thinking firmly ahead to Europe as the Spaniard prepares to struggle on Sunday yet again. Ferrari&#8217;s number one driver squeezed into Q3 with the struggling F2012 on Saturday, and is targeting some minor points on Sunday. &#8220;The two McLarens and the two Red Bulls are &#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":[864,3710,5262,149,93,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856"}],"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=15856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15857,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856\/revisions\/15857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}