{"id":3834,"date":"2010-03-28T03:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T07:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2010-03-28T03:16:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T07:16:46","slug":"mirror-visibility-worse-than-ever-barrichello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mirror-visibility-worse-than-ever-barrichello\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror visibility &#8216;worse than ever&#8217; &#8211; Barrichello"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rubens Barrichello has sided with fellow veteran Pedro de la Rosa in calling for better rear-view mirrors in formula one.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, mirrors have increasingly become integrated with the aerodynamics of the car, often mounted outboard on flimsy bodywork rather than beside the drivers near the cockpit.<\/p>\n<p>And with F1&#8217;s three new teams struggling for pace, and more cars than in recent years now filling the circuits, the issue of traffic has been high on the list of drivers&#8217; complaints so far in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>De la Rosa, reprimanded by stewards for impeding another driver this weekend, told reporters late on Saturday that he is pushing the FIA for a better mirror solution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rear visibility on the current cars is worse than ever,&#8221; Barrichello is quoted as agreeing to Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>The rules say drivers need to be able to read letters or numbers placed behind the car during scrutineering tests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Following his brush with police on Friday night, hundreds of spectators screamed &#8220;burnout!&#8221; at the 2008 world champion during the driver parade at Albert Park.<\/p>\n<p>But the Briton described the Australians&#8217; reaction as &#8220;cool&#8221;, remarking that it had been &#8220;the best driver parade of my entire life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubens Barrichello has sided with fellow veteran Pedro de la Rosa in calling for better rear-view mirrors in formula one. \u00a0<\/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":[5262,5261,271,352],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834"}],"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=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3835,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}