{"id":1983,"date":"2010-02-01T06:23:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2010-02-01T06:23:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:23:52","slug":"alonso-worked-to-simplify-ferrari-steering-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-worked-to-simplify-ferrari-steering-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso worked to simplify Ferrari steering wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fernando Alonso has revealed he has already had some input into the basic configuration of Ferrari&#8217;s 2010 car.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard, who will get his first turn at the wheel of the F10 at Valencia on Wednesday, told Italy&#8217;s La Stampa: &#8220;I worked to simplify the steering wheel, which seemed very complex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But twice world champion Alonso, who has switched to the famous Italian team from Renault, added: &#8220;I have confidence that this team&#8217;s engineers are the best in the world.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He also urged observers to react to Valencia&#8217;s testing time sheets this week with caution, despite the circuit also hosting the concurrent debuts of the new Mercedes, McLaren, Williams, Renault, Sauber and Toro Rosso cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be difficult to make comparisons,&#8221; said the 28-year-old, referring to the doubling of fuel tank sizes for this year in reaction to the pitstop refuelling ban.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One day we might be first (at the test), and the next day last.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Felipe Massa will give the F10 its debut on Monday and Tuesday, where warm and dry weather is forecast for the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Cheste.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has revealed he has already had some input into the basic configuration of Ferrari&#8217;s 2010 car. \u00a0 The Spaniard, who will get his first turn at the wheel of the F10 at Valencia on Wednesday, told Italy&#8217;s La Stampa: &#8220;I worked to simplify the steering wheel, which seemed very complex.&#8221; But twice world &#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":[5262,512,130,149,93,267],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983"}],"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=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}