{"id":4130,"date":"2010-04-04T00:07:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T04:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2010-04-03T21:40:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T01:40:31","slug":"australia-to-have-earlier-start-time-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/australia-to-have-earlier-start-time-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to have earlier start time in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">An earlier race start time for next year&#8217;s Australian grand prix is likely, Michael Schumacher has revealed.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the drivers complained about evening sun in their eyes in 2009, and then the fading conditions at the end of last week&#8217;s race, Schumacher said the FIA took some light measurements at Albert Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was certainly over the limit by the end of the race, it was certainly too dark,&#8221; the seven time world champion said at Sepang on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand that the FIA has measured this and will take action for next year &#8212; there seem to be some guidelines now on what light you have to have as a minimum,&#8221; added the German.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s Malaysian grand prix was ended early due to fading light and torrential rain, so the start time for 2010 was brought forward an hour from 5pm to 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>The late start is still a problem, said Renault&#8217;s Robert Kubica.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s risky &#8212; like today if there were big clouds, heavy rain and a lot of spray, it would just be too dark,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>With Bernie Ecclestone wanting to avoid live broadcasts to F1&#8217;s bulk European audience in the dead of the night, Pole Kubica said he thinks a better situation would be for early morning races in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I say let&#8217;s do it early in the morning so it&#8217;s Saturday evening in Europe,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier race start time for next year&#8217;s Australian grand prix is likely, Michael Schumacher has revealed.<\/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":[5339,805,59,5262,5300,5261,5340,5355,92,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130"}],"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=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}