{"id":2012,"date":"2010-02-02T07:16:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2010-02-02T07:16:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:16:40","slug":"de-la-rosa-ends-f1-test-return-with-sore-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/de-la-rosa-ends-f1-test-return-with-sore-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"De la Rosa ends F1 test return with sore neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">After a seven year hiatus as a fully-fledged race driver, Pedro de la Rosa ended Monday at Valencia with a sore neck.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since 2003, the nearly 39-year-old Spaniard has been McLaren&#8217;s test and reserve driver, which in recent times has not involved very much actual driving.<\/p>\n<p>He returns in 2010 as Sauber&#8217;s race driver, but some were relating his quick times in the new C29 car to the Swiss team&#8217;s livery devoid of sponsorship.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am tired, the neck hurts more than usual on the first day, but no one should forget that I have not been in a (F1) car for a year,&#8221; de la Rosa is quoted as saying by Spain&#8217;s Diario Sport.<\/p>\n<p>It was not a great day for Toro Rosso, whose Sebastien Buemi enjoyed very little running in the newly launched STR5 due to a gearbox problem.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Kubica, meanwhile, was clearly the slowest runner in the Renault, which has been criticised since its Sunday launch for too closely resembling its uncompetitive 2009 predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish driver did, however, manage a healthy 69 laps, and observed afterwards that he has seldom &#8220;ever driven such a (fuel) heavy car&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Eric Boullier is quoted as saying by France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo: &#8220;The purpose of this Valencia test is really to validate the concept of the R30, not to search for performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That will come later,&#8221; the Frenchman added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a seven year hiatus as a fully-fledged race driver, Pedro de la Rosa ended Monday at Valencia with a sore neck. \u00a0 Since 2003, the nearly 39-year-old Spaniard has been McLaren&#8217;s test and reserve driver, which in recent times has not involved very much actual driving. He returns in 2010 as Sauber&#8217;s race driver, &#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":[251,5262,271,96,114,261,5306,5308],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"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=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}