{"id":3082,"date":"2010-03-12T07:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2010-03-12T07:07:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:07:54","slug":"heidfeld-would-rather-watch-than-race-at-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/heidfeld-would-rather-watch-than-race-at-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidfeld would rather watch than race at back"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nick Heidfeld insists he has no regrets, despite having to sit out the 2010 season on the sidelines.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After gambling on securing a competitive race seat, the 32-year-old veteran &#8211; who arrived in Bahrain on Thursday &#8211; has ultimately had to settle for the reserve role at Mercedes GP.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And amid much criticism of F1&#8217;s three uncompetitive new teams, Heidfeld is quoted as saying by the German-language Speedweek: &#8220;I stand by my decision to be here at Mercedes rather than standing still at the back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Timo Glock, who has moved from the departed Toyota to Virgin, tried to quieten some of the criticism of the new teams including Lotus and HRT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think some people have forgotten the difficult times until very recently in F1.\u00a0 We have only two (car) manufacturers still here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other teams should be happy and grateful that we are making up the field,&#8221; the German told Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus&#8217; Heikki Kovalainen, at McLaren for the past two seasons, said the din about four second gaps and dangerous closing speeds is just noise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter whether it (the laptime gap) is one and a half or four seconds,&#8221; he told Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The drivers should be able to control their cars,&#8221; added the Finn.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalainen has topped one timesheet in Bahrain.\u00a0 In the FIA test on Thursday to prove a driver can get out of his car within 5 seconds, the 28-year-old leapt out of the green T127 and replaced the steering wheel in a record 3.4s.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heidfeld insists he has no regrets, despite having to sit out the 2010 season on the sidelines. \u00a0 After gambling on securing a competitive race seat, the 32-year-old veteran &#8211; who arrived in Bahrain on Thursday &#8211; has ultimately had to settle for the reserve role at Mercedes GP.<\/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":[5262,34,98],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082"}],"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=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}