{"id":16025,"date":"2012-05-21T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16025"},"modified":"2012-05-21T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:14:35","slug":"f1-teams-slow-development-in-topsy-turvy-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-teams-slow-development-in-topsy-turvy-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 teams slow development in topsy-turvy 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As F1&#8217;s topsy-turvy 2012 season continues, it may be the driver with the simplest and least-developed car that prevails.<\/p>\n<p>That is the claim of the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who brought the fewest technical updates to the Spanish grand prix?\u00a0 Lotus and Williams.\u00a0 And who had the fastest cars?\u00a0 Lotus and Williams,&#8221; the report claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarrely for the world of formula one, racing ahead with normal car development might now be a case of taking backwards steps, as teams endeavour to solve the mysteries of the new Pirelli tyre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are getting less new parts than last year, instead investing more time to understanding our car,&#8221; confirmed Red Bull team boss Christian Horner.<\/p>\n<p>The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag agreed: &#8220;(Sebastian) Vettel&#8217;s bosses have decided there will be no new parts until the old ones are understood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Auto Motor und Sport said the Lotus and the Williams are both &#8220;unremarkable&#8221; cars, but &#8220;all-rounders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are easy to drive and easy to set up,&#8221; the report added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As F1&#8217;s topsy-turvy 2012 season continues, it may be the driver with the simplest and least-developed car that prevails. That is the claim of the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport. &#8220;Who brought the fewest technical updates to the Spanish grand prix?\u00a0 Lotus and Williams.\u00a0 And who had the fastest cars?\u00a0 Lotus and Williams,&#8221; the &#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":[128,5262,5340,2328],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16025"}],"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=16025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16026,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16025\/revisions\/16026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}