{"id":2126,"date":"2010-02-04T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2010-02-04T19:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:12:18","slug":"rossi-says-f1-switch-would-be-very-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rossi-says-f1-switch-would-be-very-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Rossi says F1 switch would be &#8216;very difficult&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Valentino Rossi has indicated it is unlikely he will switch to formula one.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The multiple champion of MotoGP recently tested a Ferrari for the sixth time, reinvigorating persistent speculation he might switch codes as soon as in 2011.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there was the possibility in 2011 and he wanted to do it and had the possibility for testing and adapting to F1, then why not?&#8221; Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said at the recent launch of the Maranello based team&#8217;s new car.<\/p>\n<p>But even though his current Yamaha contract is set to expire, Rossi attempted to ease the rumours when he spoke to reporters on Thursday at Malaysia&#8217;s Sepang circuit, where MotoGP testing began this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had fun and it was a very good test, with good lap times, but I think that it will be very difficult to see me driving in F1,&#8221; said the 30-year-old Italian, referring to his Barcelona test in Ferrari&#8217;s 2008 car.<\/p>\n<p>He said he will not turn his full focus to next year and beyond until the summer.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentino Rossi has indicated it is unlikely he will switch to formula one. \u00a0 The multiple champion of MotoGP recently tested a Ferrari for the sixth time, reinvigorating persistent speculation he might switch codes as soon as in 2011.<\/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":[53,3],"tags":[5262,93,148,444,445],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126"}],"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=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}