{"id":4288,"date":"2010-04-09T06:39:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2010-04-09T06:30:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T10:30:45","slug":"alonso-not-worried-about-running-out-of-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-not-worried-about-running-out-of-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso not worried about running out of engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fernando Alonso has played down reports he is already nearly halfway through his allocation of engines for the 2010 season.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>FIA rules state that each driver may use just eight engines throughout the entire 19-race calendar, with ten-place grid penalties applying once the allocation is exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Alonso had his first V8 changed due to overtaking after Bahrain qualifying, suffered no problems in Melbourne but then a sudden failure in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that Ferrari will fit the fourth new engine to the 28-year-old&#8217;s F10 in China next weekend, leaving him with just four more fresh units in the bag for the remaining fifteen races.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso is quoted as commenting on the engine situation by the Spanish press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One is broken, another (the one changed in Bahrain) I can use only in free practices, and the third one (Melbourne) I can use in more races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I am not particularly worried, the team has told me that it (Malaysia) was an isolated failure, and we didn&#8217;t have any problems in the pre-season,&#8221; added Alonso.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso has played down reports he is already nearly halfway through his allocation of engines for the 2010 season.<\/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":[5262,149,93,5300,5261,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288"}],"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=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}