{"id":4433,"date":"2010-04-15T06:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2010-04-15T06:48:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:48:33","slug":"drivers-rug-up-at-cold-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/drivers-rug-up-at-cold-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers rug up at cold Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">There was no sign of Wednesday&#8217;s hail, but Shanghai remained grim and cold as F1 drivers and their engineers walked the 5.9km layout on Thursday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the oppressive heat and humidity of Malaysia, the sight of drivers rugged up in jumpers and coats, with collars pulled high and hands in pockets, resembled more a winter test than the forthcoming Chinese grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It certainly doesn&#8217;t feel like spring,&#8221; said Fernando Alonso, while a Swiss reporter said the Chinese city was &#8220;like Zurich&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the cold weather is not characteristic of China in mid-April, with Wednesday&#8217;s 8 degrees apparently beaten only by a freezing Shanghai day back in 1873.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The weather should be better for the race weekend but we&#8217;ll need to be ready for anything,&#8221; said Ferrari&#8217;s Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions are indeed expected to be better on Friday and Saturday, but there is a high chance of race-day rain.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no sign of Wednesday&#8217;s hail, but Shanghai remained grim and cold as F1 drivers and their engineers walked the 5.9km layout on Thursday.<\/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":[1275,1270,1221,5262,5261,5340,1239,5368,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433"}],"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=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}