{"id":3723,"date":"2010-03-25T07:29:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2010-03-25T07:21:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:21:18","slug":"hamilton-simply-faster-than-button-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-simply-faster-than-button-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton &#8216;simply faster&#8217; than Button &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that he was not surprised when Lewis Hamilton outpaced F1&#8217;s new reigning champion in Bahrain two weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Much has been written about the new pairing at McLaren, with many observers predicting that Jenson Button will need a few races to get up to speed with the team&#8217;s incumbent Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>But in a joint interview involving both Hamilton, 25, and the F1 chief executive, Ecclestone seemed to indicate that he expects the gap between the British pair will remain.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild if he was surprised to see Hamilton in front of Button in Bahrain, Ecclestone answered: &#8220;I would have been very surprised if he (Hamilton) was not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 &#8220;Because he is quite simply faster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Ecclestone&#8217;s comments were not included in the English-language transcript of the interview posted on the official website F1.com.<\/p>\n<p>But in both German and English-language versions, the 79-year-old was not shy to make his feelings clear about the likely travels of F1&#8217;s three new teams this season.<\/p>\n<p>When Hamilton said &#8220;never say never!&#8221; when Virgin&#8217;s title prospects were discussed, Ecclestone quipped: &#8220;In this case I can (say never).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that the new teams will raise their performance significantly over the season,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that he was not surprised when Lewis Hamilton outpaced F1&#8217;s new reigning champion in Bahrain two weeks ago.<\/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":[59,5262,5261,153,154],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723"}],"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=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}