{"id":2999,"date":"2010-03-09T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2010-03-09T07:42:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T12:42:37","slug":"new-teams-to-make-practice-more-difficult-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-teams-to-make-practice-more-difficult-button\/","title":{"rendered":"New teams to make practice &#8216;more difficult&#8217; &#8211; Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jenson Button has played down fears the arrival in F1 of several struggling new teams is a safety concern.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari and Felipe Massa have expressed reservations about the fact Lotus and Virgin were several seconds off the pace at recent February tests.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The third new team HRT, meanwhile, will make its track debut on Friday with two rookie drivers at the wheel of a car that has not turned a single lap.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview published by Italy&#8217;s La Stampa, the reigning 2009 world champion Button was asked if the new teams are set to make the sport more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not so much a question of danger,&#8221; the McLaren driver replied, &#8220;but it will make it more difficult for us to work in practice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could be we&#8217;re starting a fast lap with low fuel and you come across a Lotus or a Virgin with full tanks running 12 seconds slower.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even in qualifying, with 24 cars on the track, it will be crucial to get it right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the race it will be better, because the difference between first and last will be more like 3 or 4 seconds,&#8221; the Briton added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenson Button has played down fears the arrival in F1 of several struggling new teams is a safety concern. \u00a0 Ferrari and Felipe Massa have expressed reservations about the fact Lotus and Virgin were several seconds off the pace at recent February tests.<\/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":[5262,153],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999"}],"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=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}