{"id":3024,"date":"2010-03-11T06:48:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2010-03-11T06:40:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:40:50","slug":"webber-groans-after-seeing-longer-bahrain-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-groans-after-seeing-longer-bahrain-layout\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber groans after seeing longer Bahrain layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mark Webber groaned after taking in Bahrain&#8217;s revised layout on Wednesday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like Fernando Alonso who cycled the new 900 metre section on a mountain bike &#8211; and Heikki Kovalainen, Robert Kubica, Lucas di Resta and Robert Kubica who sampled it on foot &#8211; the drivers were keen to discover if it added a new challenge to the venue of the 2010 season opener.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing but tight corners,&#8221; Australian Webber concluded.\u00a0 &#8220;Accelerate, brake, accelerate, brake &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel admitted: &#8220;I would have preferred a couple of fast corners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But track designer Hermann Tilke is not taking the blame for the extra eight bends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This loop has been around for years.\u00a0 It was designed for long distance races to accommodate more cars,&#8221; he told Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the longer layout will bring the average lap time close to 2 minutes, which will exaggerate the expected gap between the fastest and slowest cars.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber groaned after taking in Bahrain&#8217;s revised layout on Wednesday. \u00a0 Like Fernando Alonso who cycled the new 900 metre section on a mountain bike &#8211; and Heikki Kovalainen, Robert Kubica, Lucas di Resta and Robert Kubica who sampled it on foot &#8211; the drivers were keen to discover if it added a new &#8230;<\/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":[5315,5262,875,165],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024"}],"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=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}