{"id":17347,"date":"2012-12-11T06:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17347"},"modified":"2012-12-11T06:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:43:56","slug":"too-early-to-say-di-resta-slump-a-pattern-szafnauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/too-early-to-say-di-resta-slump-a-pattern-szafnauer\/","title":{"rendered":"Too early to say di Resta slump a &#8216;pattern&#8217; &#8211; Szafnauer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Force India has played down suggestions Paul di Resta has entered a &#8220;pattern&#8221; of less competitive performances.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Paul-Di-Resta-2.jpg\" alt=\"Paul-Di-Resta-2\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Praised when he entered F1 last year and initially enjoying the upper hand over Nico Hulkenberg this year, the 26-year-old Scot was being consistently outclassed by his German teammate by the second half of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>With Hulkenberg moving to Sauber, di Resta is expected to definitely keep his place at Silverstone based Force India for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>But as for his apparently second-rate second half of the 2012 season, sporting director Otmar Szafnauer insisted: &#8220;It&#8217;s too early to speak of a pattern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But of course we also noticed what happened in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for Paul, I would say we have that in mind,&#8221; he is quoted by Speed Week.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed almost certain that di Resta will be paired with Adrian Sutil in 2013, reviving Force India&#8217;s exact 2011 lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to di Resta&#8217;s late 2012 form, the Speed Week report commented: &#8220;Pattern?\u00a0 We should know more in the coming season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Force India has played down suggestions Paul di Resta has entered a &#8220;pattern&#8221; of less competitive performances. Praised when he entered F1 last year and initially enjoying the upper hand over Nico Hulkenberg this year, the 26-year-old Scot was being consistently outclassed by his German teammate by the second half of 2012. With Hulkenberg moving &#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":[5262,576,5340,448,293,323],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347"}],"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=17347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17348,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions\/17348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}