{"id":3286,"date":"2010-03-15T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2010-03-15T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:36:19","slug":"fry-horner-join-calls-for-mandatory-two-pitstops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fry-horner-join-calls-for-mandatory-two-pitstops\/","title":{"rendered":"Fry, Horner join calls for mandatory two pitstops"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Two more team chiefs have joined FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh in agreeing that F1 should react after Sunday&#8217;s processional 2010 season opener in Bahrain.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The press and drivers slammed the impact of the new refuelling ban after the 49-lap Sakhir event, with the Bahrain race staging scarce variation in race strategies and little overtaking.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Heikki Kovalainen is the latest driver to describe the race as boring: &#8220;I agree totally, we need to do something about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McLaren boss Whitmarsh said after the race that a second pitstop per driver could be mandated to improve the situation, while Bridgestone might also have a role to play as the supplier of tyre compounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it would be bad if we didn&#8217;t react,&#8221; Mercedes GP chief executive Nick Fry told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He said both sporting and technical changes should be on the table, even though &#8220;technical changes are obviously very difficult to make and expensive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner told Reuters that he has &#8220;always endorsed&#8221; the push to mandate a second pitstop in 2010, which was voted down by majority when initially proposed in the pre-season.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more team chiefs have joined FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh in agreeing that F1 should react after Sunday&#8217;s processional 2010 season opener in Bahrain. \u00a0 The press and drivers slammed the impact of the new refuelling ban after the 49-lap Sakhir event, with the Bahrain race staging scarce variation in race strategies and little overtaking.<\/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":[128,5262,118,517,491,116],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286"}],"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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}