{"id":2966,"date":"2010-03-08T06:38:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2010-03-08T06:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:30:35","slug":"alonso-tips-red-bull-as-bahrain-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-tips-red-bull-as-bahrain-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso tips Red Bull as Bahrain favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fernando Alonso is not ready to place a bet, but his tip as the favourite for Sunday&#8217;s 2010 season opener is Red Bull.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Red Bull were a little bit ahead at the last test,&#8221; said the Ferrari driver, who has been named as the Bahrain favourite by some of his own rivals.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard said during an interview with Cadena SER radio that Red Bull, with Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber at the wheel, are &#8220;perhaps very strong now, but Bahrain is an unusual track so it&#8217;s hard to bet on a winner&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond this weekend&#8217;s race, 28-year-old Alonso predicts a close battle for the title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be four or five drivers in the fight.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to know who it will be,&#8221; he smiled.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso insists he will not be personally disappointed if he is not able to commence his new tenure with Ferrari by adding to his two world titles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is sport, not everything is two plus two,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;Winning a world championship is not a logical thing and it would not be a disappointment, even if we will work hard so that we do not disappoint our fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso is not ready to place a bet, but his tip as the favourite for Sunday&#8217;s 2010 season opener is Red Bull. \u00a0 &#8220;I think Red Bull were a little bit ahead at the last test,&#8221; said the Ferrari driver, who has been named as the Bahrain favourite by some of his own rivals.<\/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":[5262,149,93,165,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966"}],"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=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}