{"id":2227,"date":"2010-02-08T04:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T09:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2010-02-08T04:40:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T09:40:57","slug":"new-toro-rosso-not-off-the-pace-buemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-toro-rosso-not-off-the-pace-buemi\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toro Rosso not off the pace &#8211; Buemi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The opening test of the 2010 pre-season last week showed that Toro Rosso is not lagging behind, according to Sebastien Buemi.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Valencia, the team&#8217;s continuing Swiss driver gave the first fully Faenza-designed Toro Rosso its track debut.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While real comparisons are still difficult, we know that we are currently able to compete with Mercedes, Renault and Williams,&#8221; the 21-year-old told the Swiss newspaper Blick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ferrari, McLaren and Sauber are ahead,&#8221; Buemi added.\u00a0 &#8220;Yes, the Swiss car (Sauber&#8217;s C29) surprised me.\u00a0 Now only the Red Bull car missing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After winning the drivers&#8217; and constructors&#8217; titles (as Brawn) last year, and with Michael Schumacher now at the wheel, some observers expressed surprise that Mercedes GP was off the pace with its new W01 at Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Ross Brawn told Bild newspaper: &#8220;We are in a reasonable position, and have identified the areas where we can improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening test of the 2010 pre-season last week showed that Toro Rosso is not lagging behind, according to Sebastien Buemi. \u00a0 At Valencia, the team&#8217;s continuing Swiss driver gave the first fully Faenza-designed Toro Rosso its track debut.<\/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":[5262,261,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}