{"id":19000,"date":"2013-08-15T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T11:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19000"},"modified":"2013-08-15T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T11:27:11","slug":"hamilton-the-fastest-driver-on-2013-grid-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-the-fastest-driver-on-2013-grid-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton the fastest driver on 2013 grid &#8211; analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton is the fastest driver on the 2013 grid, the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport reports in a mid-season analysis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Lewis-Hamilton-car-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Lewis-Hamilton-car-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Although the Mercedes driver only broke through for his first win of the year in Hungary, correspondent Michael Schmidt revealed Hamilton&#8217;s average qualifying position so far in 2013 is a field-best of 2.36.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s championship leader Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s average grid position is 2.45, ahead of Hamilton&#8217;s Mercedes teammate, Nico Rosberg, at 4.00.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest driver in the crucial races, of course, is Vettel, with the German having held P1 during grands prix for a total of 1278 kilometres, compared to Fernando Alonso&#8217;s mere 424.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus and Kimi Raikkonen, and Mercedes and Hamilton, are the most technically reliable packages of 2013, with 3,022 kilometres apiece, followed by the uncompetitive McLaren driven by Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<p>But Finn Raikkonen is the only one of them who has scored points in every race.<\/p>\n<p>The most crash, spin and incident-prone driver has been Williams&#8217; Pastor Maldonado, followed by the under-pressure Caterham rookie Giedo van der Garde.<\/p>\n<p>Toro Rosso has been the team with the most technical problems, while Red Bull has the fastest pitstop crew, with struggling Williams&#8217; crew coming in slowest.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton is the fastest driver on the 2013 grid, the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport reports in a mid-season analysis. Although the Mercedes driver only broke through for his first win of the year in Hungary, correspondent Michael Schmidt revealed Hamilton&#8217;s average qualifying position so far in 2013 is a field-best of 2.36. &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,2286,152,154,4,1842,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19000"}],"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=19000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19001,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19000\/revisions\/19001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}