{"id":18988,"date":"2013-08-13T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18988"},"modified":"2013-08-13T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:02:11","slug":"ferrari-to-decide-on-2014-focus-switch-massa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-to-decide-on-2014-focus-switch-massa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari to decide on 2014 focus switch &#8211; Massa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the space of a few more races, Ferrari could shift the full weight of its resources to the 2014 car.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Felipe-Massa-car-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Felipe-Massa-car-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is the claim of Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, who is pushing to remain a part of the Maranello based team&#8217;s plans beyond the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, a new era dawns in formula one, but teams are already hard at work designing and developing all-new cars for the radically different V6 turbo regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are already thinking about next season,&#8221; Massa is quoted by Brazil&#8217;s Totalrace.<\/p>\n<p>After a solid start to the season, Ferrari&#8217;s development progress has faltered more recently, with Fernando Alonso&#8217;s challenge now almost 40 points behind Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s title lead.<\/p>\n<p>It means Ferrari, like most teams, is now counting down the races until preparing for the 2014 challenge becomes the absolute priority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very important,&#8221; said Massa, &#8220;because so much is changing that we have had a whole group that only works on the next car for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we need to look at the performance in the next races to determine if we should continue to develop this (2013) car, or focus completely on 2014,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the space of a few more races, Ferrari could shift the full weight of its resources to the 2014 car. That is the claim of Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, who is pushing to remain a part of the Maranello based team&#8217;s plans beyond the 2013 season. Next year, a new era dawns in formula &#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":[5262,130,149,93,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18988"}],"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=18988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18989,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18988\/revisions\/18989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}