{"id":3587,"date":"2010-03-22T06:50:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2010-03-22T06:47:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:47:58","slug":"red-bull-not-ridiculously-faster-than-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-not-ridiculously-faster-than-ferrari\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull not &#8216;ridiculously faster&#8217; than Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Felipe Massa does not agree with Lewis Hamilton that Red Bull&#8217;s car is &#8220;ridiculously&#8221; faster than the rest of the 2010 field.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having finished third behind the Ferraris in Bahrain, after Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s pole-setting RB6 dropped behind with a problem, McLaren driver Hamilton told British reporters at the weekend that the performance advantage enjoyed by Red Bull is &#8220;insane&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Ferrari&#8217;s Massa, who qualified just over a tenth behind Vettel in Bahrain, is not as downbeat as Hamilton about the pace of the Adrian Newey-penned Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In testing, the Red Bull might not have been the quickest car in terms of lap times, but I had noticed their pace over the longer runs had been very strong, so its speed in Bahrain qualifying was not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall, we were very similar and that reinforces the need to try and improve our car at every race through the season,&#8221; said the Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p>Massa believes Ferrari was even quicker in Bahrain than Red Bull on the harder of the two Bridgestone tyres.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa does not agree with Lewis Hamilton that Red Bull&#8217;s car is &#8220;ridiculously&#8221; faster than the rest of the 2010 field. \u00a0 Having finished third behind the Ferraris in Bahrain, after Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s pole-setting RB6 dropped behind with a problem, McLaren driver Hamilton told British reporters at the weekend that the performance advantage enjoyed &#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":[5262,130,93,154,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587"}],"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=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}