{"id":2708,"date":"2010-02-25T07:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2010-02-25T07:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:06:56","slug":"alguersuari-feels-ready-for-f1-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alguersuari-feels-ready-for-f1-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Alguersuari feels ready for F1 now"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">With the turmoil of his mid-season 2009 debut now behind him, Jaime Alguersuari feels ready to show the world his real talent.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year was what it was, I could not do more,&#8221; said the young Spaniard, who was called up to replace Toro Rosso&#8217;s lacklustre Sebastien Bourdais in July of last year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But he too struggled to match the pace of his teammate Sebastien Buemi, and until very recently it was unclear if team owner Red Bull would also oust Alguersuari.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on his initial eight grands prix, the teenager told Spain&#8217;s Diario Sport: &#8220;I was an employee of Red Bull and could say neither yes or no (to replacing Bourdais).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For this year I have been able to train properly and develop physically as a driver and psychologically as a person, which is what I needed to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>El Mundo newspaper quoted him as saying: &#8220;I&#8217;m no longer a soldier thrown onto the beaches of Normandy.\u00a0 Now I can go onto the track and complete two grand prix distances in a day of testing, as I did at Jerez.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his stint in the STR5 at Barcelona on Thursday, he believes he could be the &#8220;surprise&#8221; of the forthcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>He said his feeling so far at the wheel of the 2010 car, which is the first designed entirely by the Faenza based team since the Minardi takeover, is &#8220;very positive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gives me the impression that it is very competitive and reliable,&#8221; said Alguersuari, albeit acknowledging that the four teams Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are out in front.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the turmoil of his mid-season 2009 debut now behind him, Jaime Alguersuari feels ready to show the world his real talent. \u00a0 &#8220;Last year was what it was, I could not do more,&#8221; said the young Spaniard, who was called up to replace Toro Rosso&#8217;s lacklustre Sebastien Bourdais in July of last year.<\/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":[5262,382,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708"}],"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=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}