{"id":2737,"date":"2010-02-27T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2010-02-27T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:30:02","slug":"amid-rain-in-spain-pecking-order-also-clouded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/amid-rain-in-spain-pecking-order-also-clouded\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid rain in Spain, pecking order also clouded"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rain threatened to put a dampener on the Barcelona test early on Saturday, but the 2010 pecking order was also clouded.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;P1 today is nice but means nothing, to be honest,&#8221; Williams&#8217; Nico Hulkenberg said after topping Friday&#8217;s timesheets.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also quick on Friday was Ferrari, while McLaren and Mercedes seemed to be struggling for pace, and Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull could manage just the fifth fastest time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what was going on with McLaren and Mercedes today.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t looked that closely but they didn&#8217;t seem to be that quick,&#8221; said German Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrating how fickle are the developing conclusions about the pecking order is that Mercedes&#8217; Nico Rosberg had matched Friday&#8217;s pace before the rain began to fall on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But after Friday&#8217;s running, Michael Schumacher had admitted the W01 might not be a winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe not,&#8221; the seven time world champion told reporters when asked if he would be among the favourites in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton took the contrary position, arguing that suggestions his car is off the pace are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in a much stronger position than we were last year,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;After driving last year&#8217;s car here this feels light years ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain threatened to put a dampener on the Barcelona test early on Saturday, but the 2010 pecking order was also clouded. \u00a0 &#8220;P1 today is nice but means nothing, to be honest,&#8221; Williams&#8217; Nico Hulkenberg said after topping Friday&#8217;s timesheets.<\/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":[5262,811],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737"}],"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=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}