{"id":2009,"date":"2010-02-02T07:12:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2010-02-02T07:34:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:34:14","slug":"ferraris-new-car-impresses-on-first-test-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferraris-new-car-impresses-on-first-test-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari&#8217;s new car impresses on first test day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Michael Schumacher media frenzy aside, the performance of Ferrari&#8217;s new car was a major point of interest as official testing kicked off on Monday at Valencia.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With an unique-looking double diffuser, the F10 in the hands of Felipe Massa sparred throughout the day for the quickest times with Sauber&#8217;s Pedro de la Rosa.<\/p>\n<p>Massa, insisting he is completely recovered from his Hungary crash last year and feeling &#8220;zero fear&#8221; to be back on a track with his rivals, ended up with the quickest time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first impression of the car is really positive: it is easier to drive compared to the F60, we can work better on the set up and last but not least there&#8217;s much more grip, which makes it much more pleasant to drive,&#8221; said the Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Massa&#8217;s best time at the end of the day was set on lower fuel, with his pace over longer runs arguably even more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Said Ross Brawn, boss of Mercedes GP: &#8220;Ferrari have clearly got a good car, but it&#8217;s too early to say (what is the pecking order).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rubens Barrichello, sixth quickest at the wheel of the new Williams, agreed: &#8220;You can&#8217;t predict anything from the times today; and probably won&#8217;t be able to for the remainder of the tests because of the fuel loads people will run with such big tanks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It probably won&#8217;t be until Bahrain qualifying that we will see where everyone is,&#8221; the Brazilian added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michael Schumacher media frenzy aside, the performance of Ferrari&#8217;s new car was a major point of interest as official testing kicked off on Monday at Valencia. \u00a0 With an unique-looking double diffuser, the F10 in the hands of Felipe Massa sparred throughout the day for the quickest times with Sauber&#8217;s Pedro de la Rosa. &#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":[308,5262,512,130,271,35,352,114],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009"}],"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=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}