{"id":2434,"date":"2010-02-14T11:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T16:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2010-02-14T11:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T16:40:42","slug":"jerez-test-results-cloud-2010-pecking-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/jerez-test-results-cloud-2010-pecking-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerez test results cloud 2010 pecking order"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Four teams look to be in the hunt for the 2010 world championship, Michael Schumacher predicted after last week&#8217;s Jerez test.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the four-day session at the often damp Spanish circuit ended, the German had set just the eighth quickest lap time of all &#8212; albeit ahead of his Mercedes GP teammate Nico Rosberg.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have four that I think are the major teams,&#8221; he told reporters, referring to his Brackley based employer as well as Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, 41, added that some other teams also appear to have &#8220;very interesting pace&#8221;, like Sauber, whose &#8220;car is quite quick&#8221;, the seven time world champion opined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the Renault &#8212; there is a question mark how quick it is,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very tough to understand the order of the teams just yet as everyone can play so much with the fuel loads.\u00a0 So there is a lot of speculation going on but it&#8217;s very interesting,&#8221; said Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>As the circuit dried completely at the end of Saturday, Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap of the entire four-day test in his McLaren, with the new Toro Rosso, Sauber and Force India closely behind in a combined time sheet.<\/p>\n<p>The result sets a different scene than the last outing at Valencia, when Ferrari seemed the dominant force.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s questionable how valid these lap times here at the tests are,&#8221; read an official Ferrari report.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the F10 is good enough for the title, Felipe Massa &#8211; who did an incredible 160 laps on Saturday with no physical problems &#8211; said: &#8220;It&#8217;s much too early (to say), although I really hope so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What counts is that we know that we&#8217;ve got a fast and consistent car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jerez action resumes for another four days beginning this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four teams look to be in the hunt for the 2010 world championship, Michael Schumacher predicted after last week&#8217;s Jerez test. \u00a0 When the four-day session at the often damp Spanish circuit ended, the German had set just the eighth quickest lap time of all &#8212; albeit ahead of his Mercedes GP teammate Nico Rosberg.<\/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":[5262,93,5312,5284,34,92,129,5306],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434"}],"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=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}