{"id":3945,"date":"2010-03-30T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2010-03-30T20:33:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:33:33","slug":"mclaren-admits-victory-repeat-in-malaysia-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-admits-victory-repeat-in-malaysia-unlikely\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren admits victory repeat in Malaysia unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Two days after Jenson Button scored McLaren&#8217;s first win of the 2010 season, the British team has warned that a repeat in Malaysia this weekend is unlikely.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The MP4-25 car was better suited to Melbourne than it had been at the Bahrain season opener, but reigning world champion Button said on Tuesday: &#8220;I think we travel to Sepang mindful that the characteristics of the (Sepang) circuit probably won&#8217;t suit our car as well as it will suit some of the others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Teammate Lewis Hamilton played up the situation, noting that this year&#8217;s car &#8220;will be far better&#8221; in Malaysia than its predecessor was a year ago, when it qualified just 13th at Sepang.<\/p>\n<p>But team boss Martin Whitmarsh said the Woking based team is &#8220;under no illusions&#8221; that it will be the &#8220;regular pacesetters&#8221; &#8211; presumably Red Bull and Ferrari &#8211; who will be &#8220;up at the front&#8221; this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Button, however, is not ruling out his chances of defending his title in 2010, with his Melbourne win propelling him to within 6 points of Fernando Alonso&#8217;s early lead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always thought the (2010) title might be on.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a long season,&#8221; the Briton is quoted as saying by the Mirror.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after Jenson Button scored McLaren&#8217;s first win of the 2010 season, the British team has warned that a repeat in Malaysia this weekend is unlikely. \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":[5262,5261,5340,153,154,1184,491,5284,5336],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945"}],"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=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}