{"id":4118,"date":"2010-04-03T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2010-04-03T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T12:30:19","slug":"now-f1-world-braced-for-sepang-race-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/now-f1-world-braced-for-sepang-race-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Now F1 world braced for Sepang race chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As evening fell at Sepang on Saturday, the paddock chatter was about what the weather might now bring for the Malaysian grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>True to week-long predictions, the late afternoon downpours arrived right on cue for qualifying, and so disruptive that the red flags had to wave during Q3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Malaysian rain is like English tea: it comes around five and it&#8217;s the same temperature,&#8221; joked Toro Rosso&#8217;s Italian engineer Giorgio Ascanelli.<\/p>\n<p>The weather radar played havoc with F1&#8217;s cleverest top teams, with big title players including the Ferraris and McLarens now stranded down the grid after initially gambling on easing rain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The simple fact is that we didn&#8217;t expect it to rain anymore,&#8221; said Lewis Hamilton, who is 20th, while his teammate Jenson Button acquaplaned into the gravel and is three places higher.<\/p>\n<p>The Ferraris made the same mistake and also went out in Q1, while Michael Schumacher is disappointed for a different reason: he was simply a second slower in wet Q2 and Q3 than his teammate Nico Rosberg, who is alongside the runaway pole sitter Mark Webber.<\/p>\n<p>And the late Saturday talk is about even heavier ran at 4pm on Sunday, just in time for the start of the race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that is the forecast,&#8221; said Jaime Alguersuari.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As evening fell at Sepang on Saturday, the paddock chatter was about what the weather might now bring for the Malaysian grand prix.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,5367,528,1178,1216,5336,1188,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118"}],"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=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4119,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}