{"id":20602,"date":"2013-12-30T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20602"},"modified":"2013-12-30T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T12:44:13","slug":"prost-admits-new-turbo-era-fascinates-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/prost-admits-new-turbo-era-fascinates-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Prost admits new turbo era &#8216;fascinates me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Prost has admitted he would like to still be a formula one driver, ahead of the switch to radical new engine rules for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The quadruple world champion, known during his career as &#8216;the professor&#8217; due to his technical meticulousness, said the move to turbo V6 and &#8216;greener&#8217; energy recovery systems, following years of frozen V8 rules, &#8220;fascinates me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Frenchman Prost, now 58 and an ambassador for the world champion engine supplier Renault, won his last title in 1993, when Williams utterly dominated with its highly sophisticated &#8216;active suspension&#8217; car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going back the essence of competition, which we had lost a little over the past years,&#8221; he is quoted by France&#8217;s autohebdo.fr.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the past few seasons, I have never said &#8216;It would be nice to be driving now&#8217;, but for 2014, I really would like to be,&#8221; added Prost.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Prost has admitted he would like to still be a formula one driver, ahead of the switch to radical new engine rules for 2014. The quadruple world champion, known during his career as &#8216;the professor&#8217; due to his technical meticulousness, said the move to turbo V6 and &#8216;greener&#8217; energy recovery systems, following years of &#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":[375,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602"}],"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=20602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20603,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions\/20603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}