{"id":3684,"date":"2010-03-24T07:22:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2010-03-24T07:18:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:18:29","slug":"button-predicts-same-as-bahrain-in-wednesday-drizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/button-predicts-same-as-bahrain-in-wednesday-drizzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Button predicts ‘same as Bahrain’ in Wednesday drizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"
There were a few spots of drizzle in the air at Albert Park on Wednesday morning, but a wet Australian grand prix remains only a remote possibility.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Local reports predict a chance of rain on both Friday and Saturday, and cloudy skies throughout Melbourne’s fifteenth formula one race weekend.<\/p>\n

But the worst of the weather should hold off until Monday, and after Wednesday’s grey morning, the warm sun was shining down on the paddock by afternoon.<\/p>\n

Some pundits are actually hoping Melbourne’s notoriously fickle weather intervenes this weekend, in the wake of the processional Bahrain race two weeks ago and expectations that more one-stop strategies will be the order of the day at Albert Park.<\/p>\n

“If you look at it, you’d say it is going to be the same as Bahrain,” said reigning world champion Jenson Button in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Bahrain winner Fernando Alonso was one of the first to predict a boring season after the 2010 season opener, but on Tuesday he admitted that those sorts of comments had been “hot headed”.<\/p>\n

“It’s too early to talk about changing the rules,” said the Ferrari driver.\u00a0 “We have to wait and see different races and check the situation, without being emotional.<\/p>\n

“Something that confuses the fans is changing the rules all the time,” added Alonso.<\/p>\n

The media should also be taking blame for the ‘Bore-rain’ hype, like Britain’s Sun newspaper who said the sport now has “two races to save the season”.<\/p>\n

The newspaper was reporting the latest comments made in Australia by Button, who was denying that a rule change in one area will be enough to solve F1’s new problem.<\/p>\n

“You can’t just think of one area.\u00a0 You need to think about a couple,” said the McLaren driver, who in Bahrain struggled to match the pace of his new teammate Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n

But as an insider in the Spanish media observed: “Losers always want different rules.”<\/p>\n

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There were a few spots of drizzle in the air at Albert Park on Wednesday morning, but a wet Australian grand prix remains only a remote possibility. \u00a0 Local reports predict a chance of rain on both Friday and Saturday, and cloudy skies throughout Melbourne’s fifteenth formula one race weekend.<\/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":[5339,805,879,5262,5261,153],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684"}],"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=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}