{"id":2107,"date":"2010-02-04T07:04:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:04:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:04:13","slug":"new-renault-not-far-off-ferraris-pace-kubica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-renault-not-far-off-ferraris-pace-kubica\/","title":{"rendered":"New Renault not far off Ferrari&#8217;s pace &#8211; Kubica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Robert Kubica insists that Renault&#8217;s new car is not just a newly liveried version of its uncompetitive predecessor.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pole this week kicked off his switch from BMW-Sauber in the wake of Renault&#8217;s dismal 2009 campaign, the crashgate scandal, and the resultant loss of sponsors and the Genii Capital takeover.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Newly painted in yellow and black, the R30 was then derided for too closely resembling last year&#8217;s car, even though 25-year-old Kubica&#8217;s best lap was just a second off the dominant Ferraris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just looks like the old car, but it&#8217;s new,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps it is because we have a shorter car than our competitors.\u00a0 With full tanks, we are on the pace and I don&#8217;t think much slower than Ferrari.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kubica admitted that the new McLaren is the one that impressed him most this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly the McLaren,&#8221; he answered.\u00a0 &#8220;In the area of the rear they have some very interesting aerodynamic solutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Kubica insists that Renault&#8217;s new car is not just a newly liveried version of its uncompetitive predecessor. \u00a0 The Pole this week kicked off his switch from BMW-Sauber in the wake of Renault&#8217;s dismal 2009 campaign, the crashgate scandal, and the resultant loss of sponsors and the Genii Capital takeover.<\/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":[5262,560,55,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"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=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}