{"id":15906,"date":"2012-04-27T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T10:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15906"},"modified":"2012-04-27T06:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T10:53:58","slug":"button-not-keen-to-test-at-mugello-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/button-not-keen-to-test-at-mugello-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Button not keen to test at Mugello next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button has admitted he sees no point to changing McLaren&#8217;s Mugello test programme next week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Jenson-Button-car.jpg\" alt=\"Jenson-Button-car\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>After the British team struggled for pace on Pirelli&#8217;s complex tyres last weekend in Bahrain, Button&#8217;s teammate Hamilton admitted he wanted to test at Mugello.<\/p>\n<p>The in-season test in Italy is F1&#8217;s first for years, but McLaren had already announced that only test drivers Gary Paffett and Oliver Turvey would be in action.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamilton insisted: &#8220;I need to get back in the car.\u00a0 We need to figure out why the tyres are going off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Briton Button, however, is already scheduled to be at a promotional team event in Hungary early next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason why we (the race drivers) are not there is because we&#8217;ve never been to Mugello before,&#8221; he is quoted by the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really think we will be a benefit because there aren&#8217;t any massive updates to try.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the test drivers to put some miles on parts and try some very extreme things, then I think it&#8217;s good, but it&#8217;s not necessary for us (race drivers) to be there,&#8221; added Button.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button has admitted he sees no point to changing McLaren&#8217;s Mugello test programme next week. After the British team struggled for pace on Pirelli&#8217;s complex tyres last weekend in Bahrain, Button&#8217;s teammate Hamilton admitted he wanted to test at Mugello. The in-season test in Italy is F1&#8217;s first for years, but McLaren had already &#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":[5262,5340,493,153,5284,3722,2413],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906"}],"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=15906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15907,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906\/revisions\/15907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}