{"id":4139,"date":"2010-04-04T07:41:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2010-04-04T07:41:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:41:16","slug":"head-surprised-after-early-hulkenberg-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/head-surprised-after-early-hulkenberg-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Head surprised after early Hulkenberg struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">While the big-hitters at Ferrari and McLaren floundered in Malaysia, Nico Hulkenberg had the first breakthrough of his young F1 career.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After struggling to keep up with his vastly experienced teammate Rubens Barrichello earlier this season, the 22-year-old reigning GP2 champion qualified an impressive fifth at slippery Sepang.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, he (Hulkenberg) did a good job,&#8221; team co-owner and engineering director Patrick Head told the Times.\u00a0 &#8220;But it wasn&#8217;t particularly a surprise that he did so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say it was more of a surprise that he didn&#8217;t quite get it together in Bahrain and Melbourne,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Barrichello, 37, warned the team not to get too carried away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we would have achieved P5 and P7 in a dry session,&#8221; insisted the Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the big-hitters at Ferrari and McLaren floundered in Malaysia, Nico Hulkenberg had the first breakthrough of his young F1 career.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,5367,528,1178,448,124,1216,5336,1188,1193,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139"}],"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=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4140,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}