{"id":2235,"date":"2010-02-08T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2010-02-08T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:02:08","slug":"coulthard-expects-button-to-trail-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/coulthard-expects-button-to-trail-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Coulthard expects Button to trail Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jenson Button is not likely to keep up with his new teammate Lewis Hamilton in the opening part of the 2010 season.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is the admission of Button&#8217;s friend and former rival David Coulthard, who previously rebuked commentators&#8217; claims that Hamilton will blow away the 2009 world champion this season.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After experiencing seating position problems at Valencia last week, Button trailed Hamilton&#8217;s pace at Valencia as the pair got their first taste of the new MP4-25.<\/p>\n<p>The situation seemed to play out fears that Button walked into the lion&#8217;s den by switching from Brawn to McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d expect Lewis to have the upper hand in the early part of the year,&#8221; former long time McLaren driver Coulthard is quoted as saying by the Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s a great chance for Jenson to show he&#8217;s a great driver and a worthy champion,&#8221; the Scot added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button is not likely to keep up with his new teammate Lewis Hamilton in the opening part of the 2010 season. \u00a0 That is the admission of Button&#8217;s friend and former rival David Coulthard, who previously rebuked commentators&#8217; claims that Hamilton will blow away the 2009 world champion this season.<\/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":[410,5262,153,154],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235"}],"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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}