{"id":2399,"date":"2010-02-12T07:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2010-02-12T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:09:20","slug":"cosworth-better-than-toyotas-f1-engine-hulkenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/cosworth-better-than-toyotas-f1-engine-hulkenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosworth &#8216;better&#8217; than Toyota&#8217;s F1 engine &#8211; Hulkenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nico Hulkenberg has admitted that returning engine supplier Cosworth&#8217;s V8 unit feels &#8220;better&#8221; and &#8220;stronger&#8221; than the Toyota power plant.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The German rookie was Williams&#8217; test driver in 2009, meaning that the last two formula one cars he drove were respectively Toyota and Cosworth powered.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Williams has this year switched to Cosworth, the independent British supplier supported by the FIA to also power F1&#8217;s new teams Virgin, Lotus, Campos and USF1.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the Cosworth engine by reporters at Jerez, 22-year-old Hulkenberg said: &#8220;It is good; I&#8217;m positively surprised about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked to compare it with Toyota&#8217;s engine, he added: &#8220;It feels better, it feels stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was otherwise not a great day for Williams, after a hydraulic leak preceded a driveshaft problem aboard the new FW32 car.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Hulkenberg has admitted that returning engine supplier Cosworth&#8217;s V8 unit feels &#8220;better&#8221; and &#8220;stronger&#8221; than the Toyota power plant. \u00a0 The German rookie was Williams&#8217; test driver in 2009, meaning that the last two formula one cars he drove were respectively Toyota and Cosworth powered.<\/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":[353,5262,448,256,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399"}],"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=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}