{"id":17562,"date":"2013-01-14T06:52:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17562"},"modified":"2013-01-14T06:52:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:52:20","slug":"f1-experts-say-button-new-mclaren-number-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-experts-say-button-new-mclaren-number-1\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 experts say Button new McLaren &#8216;number 1&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button has de-facto &#8216;number 1&#8217; status at McLaren this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Jenson-Button\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Jenson-Button.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is the view of F1 experts and former drivers Martin Brundle and Sir Jackie Stewart, despite team boss Martin Whitmarsh&#8217;s claim that Sergio Perez will enjoy full equality at the British team as he replaces Lewis Hamilton from 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is the mentality in our team,&#8221; the McLaren chief told British broadcaster Sky.\u00a0 &#8220;They will have equal treatment.\u00a0 I think that competition in the team is good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But F1 legend and triple world champion Stewart said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not a question of equal footing this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve someone in Jenson who knows the business and who has been there, seen it and done it,&#8221; he is quoted by the Daily Express.\u00a0 &#8220;He has to see himself as number 1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former McLaren driver turned top television commentator Brundle agrees: &#8220;With Lewis&#8217; departure, Jenson takes the lead of the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can now concentrate on that role and I think he will grow into it,&#8221; he is quoted by Speed Week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button has de-facto &#8216;number 1&#8217; status at McLaren this year. That is the view of F1 experts and former drivers Martin Brundle and Sir Jackie Stewart, despite team boss Martin Whitmarsh&#8217;s claim that Sergio Perez will enjoy full equality at the British team as he replaces Lewis Hamilton from 2013. &#8220;That is the mentality &#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":[5262,5340,153,322,5284,745],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562"}],"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=17562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17563,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562\/revisions\/17563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}