{"id":22013,"date":"2014-05-22T07:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T11:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22013"},"modified":"2014-05-22T07:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T11:05:21","slug":"monaco-to-be-kvyats-first-street-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/monaco-to-be-kvyats-first-street-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco to be Kvyat&#8217;s first street race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Kvyat says he is taking a &#8220;step in the dark&#8221; this weekend at Monaco.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-drivers\/Daniil-Kvyat-1.jpg\" alt=\"Daniil-Kvyat-1\" width=\"466\" height=\"310\" \/>While others in the Principality are soaking up the glamour of the &#8216;jewel&#8217; in F1&#8217;s crown, the Russian 20-year-old is thinking about his very first laps of the challenging layout.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, Sergio Perez said on Wednesday that, with the lower-grip 2014 cars and the high-torque turbo engines, Monaco will be even tougher than usual this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will see drivers make many mistakes,&#8221; said the Mexican.\u00a0 &#8220;It will definitely be more exciting than in recent years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Exciting&#8217; may not be the right word for Kvyat, who began his F1 career with Toro Rosso this year as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>And he stepped into F1 straight from GP3, a lower-tier formula that does not race at Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Monaco for me will be an absolutely new experience,&#8221; said Kvyat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only have I never raced here, I have never even been on a visit.\u00a0 In fact, I have never raced on any street circuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will really be a step into the unknown for me,&#8221; he said, explaining that he has spent only half a day driving the layout on the simulator.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Kvyat says he is taking a &#8220;step in the dark&#8221; this weekend at Monaco. While others in the Principality are soaking up the glamour of the &#8216;jewel&#8217; in F1&#8217;s crown, the Russian 20-year-old is thinking about his very first laps of the challenging layout. Not only that, Sergio Perez said on Wednesday that, with &#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":[4670,5262,5340,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013"}],"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=22013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22014,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013\/revisions\/22014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}