{"id":26450,"date":"2015-01-09T06:53:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T11:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=26450"},"modified":"2015-01-09T06:53:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T11:53:39","slug":"f1-to-challenge-laptime-records-in-2015-hembery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-to-challenge-laptime-records-in-2015-hembery\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 to challenge laptime records in 2015 &#8211; Hembery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hembery, official tyre supplier Pirelli&#8217;s F1 chief, is expecting the field to speed up significantly in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Italian marque took a deliberately conservative approach to its 2014 rubber, having gone through a tumultuous 2013 and with the uncertainties of the new turbo V6 era in mind.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, and with the high-downforce, V8 powered era in the past, lap times last year generally suffered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last season,&#8221; Hembery agreed, &#8220;the power unit manufacturers, the teams, and ourselves (Pirelli) learned a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be very interesting to see what awaits us in Australia,&#8221; he is quoted by Russia&#8217;s f1news.ru.\u00a0 &#8220;Only then will we get a real idea of the scale of changes that have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Pirelli we already have specific information about what we can expect in the new season, and I can say that some of it is very interesting, and that is to put it mildly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect a significant increase in pace, and when you consider how much laptimes normally improve through a season, I think by the end of 2015 we will be getting close to breaking records,&#8221; Hembery added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hembery, official tyre supplier Pirelli&#8217;s F1 chief, is expecting the field to speed up significantly in 2015. Last year, the Italian marque took a deliberately conservative approach to its 2014 rubber, having gone through a tumultuous 2013 and with the uncertainties of the new turbo V6 era in mind. As a result, and with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,1797,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26450"}],"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=26450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26452,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26450\/revisions\/26452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}