{"id":1777,"date":"2010-01-24T23:16:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T04:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2010-01-24T23:16:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T04:16:29","slug":"bortolotti-not-eyeing-f1-move-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bortolotti-not-eyeing-f1-move-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bortolotti not eyeing F1 move yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mirko Bortolotti insists he is focused only on securing another drive in the F2 series.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Jaime Alguersuari&#8217;s confirmation for 2010, recent rumours linked Italian youngster Bortolotti with the Toro Rosso seat, until it emerged that in fact he has been ousted from Red Bull&#8217;s driver development programme.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He finished the 2009 F2 championship fourth, and is quoted by the News of the World as revealing that the feeder series remains his focus for the forthcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;F2 is still a major option for me in 2010 and I am not even thinking about F1 at the moment,&#8221; said Bortolotti.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am only 20 and I think it is vital that you are fully prepared in terms of speed, experience and consistency before you make the step to formula one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He tested with Faenza based Toro Rosso during December&#8217;s young driver session at Jerez, and made headlines more than a year ago when he broke the Fiorano lap record while testing with Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>But Bortolotti admits he is not ready for F1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to have been through it all; you need to know how to be quick over one lap but also consistent over a race distance, you need to know how to turn bad situations into a good one for example.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are so many things that you need to learn and I want to reach formula one when I am in the right moment of my career.\u00a0 F1 is F1 &#8212; it is not a game, so at the moment I am better to focus on learning and improving further for the future,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirko Bortolotti insists he is focused only on securing another drive in the F2 series. \u00a0 Prior to Jaime Alguersuari&#8217;s confirmation for 2010, recent rumours linked Italian youngster Bortolotti with the Toro Rosso seat, until it emerged that in fact he has been ousted from Red Bull&#8217;s driver development programme.<\/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":[5262,487,382,286,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777"}],"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=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}