{"id":18033,"date":"2013-03-21T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18033"},"modified":"2013-03-21T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T11:00:50","slug":"salo-doubts-williams-can-bounce-back-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/salo-doubts-williams-can-bounce-back-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Salo doubts Williams can bounce back in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former F1 driver Mika Salo has questioned whether Williams has the ability to recover from a bad start to the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar slump early this year is McLaren, but Finn Salo &#8211; a former Toyota and Sauber driver &#8211; tipped the great British team to bounce back soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we will see an improvement from them (McLaren) as early as the next race,&#8221; the 46-year-old pundit told the Finnish broadcaster MTV3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With those resources you can improve, as we have seen before.\u00a0 If they&#8217;ve had a bad start, very quickly they have improved and started to win races,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Salo, however, questions whether Oxfordshire based Williams can stage a similar turnaround, given its comparatively inferior size and resources.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to his countryman Valtteri Bottas&#8217; Melbourne debut, Salo said: &#8220;He handled things well, but it was miserable.\u00a0 The car is not good.\u00a0 Almost the last of all the teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Williams has a lot of work ahead now.\u00a0 Yes, it is an experienced team, but do they have the resources to improve when the car is this bad?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former F1 driver Mika Salo has questioned whether Williams has the ability to recover from a bad start to the 2013 season. In a similar slump early this year is McLaren, but Finn Salo &#8211; a former Toyota and Sauber driver &#8211; tipped the great British team to bounce back soon. &#8220;I think we will &#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":[5262,5340,104,538,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033"}],"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=18033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18034,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033\/revisions\/18034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}