{"id":1997,"date":"2010-02-01T06:45:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2010-02-01T06:45:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:45:38","slug":"busy-morning-as-f1-bursts-to-life-at-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/busy-morning-as-f1-bursts-to-life-at-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy morning as F1 bursts to life at Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The F1 world &#8211; and a very crowded media centre &#8211; got its first look at the new Toro Rosso and Mercedes cars on Monday morning, as the winter testing ban ended and Valencia burst into life.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ferrari-powered STR5, although not featuring the intellectual property of sister team Red Bull for the first time, seems an evolution of last year&#8217;s Adrian Newey-penned car as it was rolled out for the photographers behind the pits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks nice from the outside, and I know that its insides are also good,&#8221; said Jaime Alguersuari, as his teammate Sebastien Buemi gave the car its track debut.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The basis is quite similar to last year&#8217;s car and I think we can have a good year, partly down to the fact that I am better prepared,&#8221; added the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Franz Tost revealed that the Faenza based team has bought a Bicester wind tunnel from Red Bull Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mercedes&#8217; MGP W01 is an evolution of the title-winning 2009 Brawn, but also clearly different, with an unique V-shape to the nose for better underneath air flow.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Paffett headed the early timesheets in McLaren&#8217;s new MP4-25, before Felipe Massa set the best lap on the Ferrari F10&#8217;s track debut.<\/p>\n<p>After two hours of running, the new Sauber (Pedro de la Rosa), Renault (Robert Kubica) and Williams (Rubens Barrichello) came next in the pecking order, followed by Buemi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Williams are not launching as such, when the car rolls out at 10am, that will be its debut,&#8221; said spokeswoman Claire Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Rosberg&#8217;s first laps in the W01, watched on by his father and 1982 world champion Keke, were not representative of Mercedes&#8217; likely form this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old German, who posed with the car in the morning with Michael Schumacher, has swapped the blue on his regular helmet colours for silver.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F1 world &#8211; and a very crowded media centre &#8211; got its first look at the new Toro Rosso and Mercedes cars on Monday morning, as the winter testing ban ended and Valencia burst into life. \u00a0 The Ferrari-powered STR5, although not featuring the intellectual property of sister team Red Bull for the first &#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":[5262,130,570,493,382,492,34,569,92,4,129,261,5306,259,5308],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"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=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}