{"id":20889,"date":"2014-02-04T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T12:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20889"},"modified":"2014-02-04T07:10:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T12:10:20","slug":"too-early-to-declare-2014-favourite-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/too-early-to-declare-2014-favourite-wolff\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Too early&#8217; to declare 2014 favourite &#8211; Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toto Wolff has played down reports Mercedes is the clear 2014 favourite after the first winter test at Jerez last week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Toto-Wolff-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Toto-Wolff-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>&#8220;It is too early to know,&#8221; the German marque&#8217;s commercial director told the Spanish-language Motorpasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is just testing and so you can&#8217;t say much.\u00a0 But it was good that we were able to do so many miles, Nico (Rosberg) even did a race simulation, which is something the others were not able to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only in Australia will we see something representative,&#8221; added Wolff.\u00a0 &#8220;The cars are going to change a lot until then, (as) there is a lot more testing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>German Rosberg agrees that, while Mercedes had a successful test in southern Spain with good reliability, &#8220;a lot of work&#8221; still lies ahead before Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Performance-wise we don&#8217;t know where we are because you can&#8217;t really compare to the other cars, but that&#8217;s not the focus right now,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Teammate Lewis Hamilton added: &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit early to say this definitely, but right now the car feels pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far so good; now we just have to continue working hard and see what happens in Bahrain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toto Wolff has played down reports Mercedes is the clear 2014 favourite after the first winter test at Jerez last week. &#8220;It is too early to know,&#8221; the German marque&#8217;s commercial director told the Spanish-language Motorpasion. &#8220;It is just testing and so you can&#8217;t say much.\u00a0 But it was good that we were able to &#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":[5262,5340,154,4463,4,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889"}],"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=20889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20890,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889\/revisions\/20890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}