{"id":17497,"date":"2013-01-02T06:52:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T11:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17497"},"modified":"2013-01-02T06:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T11:52:05","slug":"2013-toro-rosso-very-different-ricciardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/2013-toro-rosso-very-different-ricciardo\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Toro Rosso &#8216;very different&#8217; &#8211; Ricciardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year Toro Rosso car is &#8220;very different&#8221; to the 2012 model, Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo has revealed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Daniel-Ricciardo-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Daniel-Ricciardo-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Ricciardo and his teammate Jean-Eric Vergne finished last season eighteenth and seventeenth consecutively, with the Faenza based squad ahead only of the sport&#8217;s three newest teams in the constructors&#8217; standings.<\/p>\n<p>23-year-old Ricciardo has acknowledged the pressure to improve in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m aware of that, and I know that my targets in 2013 will have to be more ambitious,&#8221; he told Italy&#8217;s Autosprint magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Achilles heel is that this year, in the first part of the season, I wasn&#8217;t aggressive enough in the races.\u00a0 In some aspects I was the opposite of Grosjean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another crucial element, Ricciardo admitted, is a better Toro Rosso single seater.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have already seen the new car.\u00a0 When you examine it more closely, it is very different to the old one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that it is better.\u00a0 In any case, it&#8217;s not one of those cars that looks a total copy of the last one, as though nothing has changed,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Toro Rosso car is &#8220;very different&#8221; to the 2012 model, Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo has revealed. Ricciardo and his teammate Jean-Eric Vergne finished last season eighteenth and seventeenth consecutively, with the Faenza based squad ahead only of the sport&#8217;s three newest teams in the constructors&#8217; standings. 23-year-old Ricciardo has acknowledged the pressure to &#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":[1096,5262,5340,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17497"}],"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=17497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17498,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17497\/revisions\/17498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}