{"id":21339,"date":"2014-03-24T07:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21339"},"modified":"2014-03-24T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T01:49:48","slug":"hamiltons-melbourne-engine-still-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamiltons-melbourne-engine-still-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton’s Melbourne engine still firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton’s 2014 title campaign is still on track.<\/p>\n

\"Lewis-Hamilton-2\"The Melbourne polesitter had to retire at Albert Park after his Mercedes engine – among a mere allocation of just five for the entire 19-race campaign – dropped from six to five cylinders in the early stages of the race.<\/p>\n

“While I wanted to keep going,” Hamilton said in Australia, “we had to play safe and save the engine.”<\/p>\n

But it appears that Mercedes’ efforts to ‘save’ the turbo V6 ‘power unit’ have at least paid off.<\/p>\n

The Mirror newspaper reports that the 2008 world champion, whose teammate Nico Rosberg is leading the drivers’ standings, has not yet lost the Melbourne-specification engine from his allocation for the season.<\/p>\n

“The fortunate thing is that we did stop when we did,” Hamilton said in Kuala Lumpur, explaining that “something went wrong with the wiring” in Australia.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t want to stop I have to say,” he admitted.\u00a0 “The car was going but not very fast.\u00a0 I am keeping my fingers crossed and I think it (the engine) is going to be usable.”<\/p>\n

\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton’s 2014 title campaign is still on track. The Melbourne polesitter had to retire at Albert Park after his Mercedes engine – among a mere allocation of just five for the entire 19-race campaign – dropped from six to five cylinders in the early stages of the race. “While I wanted to keep going,” …<\/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],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339"}],"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=21339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21353,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339\/revisions\/21353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}