{"id":4514,"date":"2010-04-16T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2010-04-16T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:18:00","slug":"alonso-plays-down-latest-engine-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/alonso-plays-down-latest-engine-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso plays down latest engine failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fernando Alonso on Friday played down the effect his latest engine failure could have on his bid to win the 2010 world championship.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard also had a failure that put him out of the Malaysian grand prix two weeks ago, sparking concerns he might run out of his allocation of eight engines for the year.<\/p>\n<p>But he told the Spanish news agency EFE that Ferrari will &#8220;continue with our original plan&#8221; for engine use for now.<\/p>\n<p>The engine that failed in his F110 on Friday morning was the one removed after an overheating issue after qualifying in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>The (failed) 2.4 litre unit that he then practiced with in the afternoon in China was the one with which he won the 2010 season opener.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made a plan about how to use (the engines) and it is now more or less the same.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing is we will have to use them a little more on Fridays, but for the Saturday and Sunday the plan remains the same as before and there is not much concern,&#8221; Alonso, 28, insisted.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that, because changed on Saturday in Bahrain, the failed Shanghai engine was only eligible to be used in free practices anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso however acknowledged that &#8220;if we lose another (engine), things would be tighter, but fingers crossed that for now we keep with our original plan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also predicted that Red Bull will remain &#8220;ahead of everyone&#8221; this weekend, and that Ferrari&#8217;s new F-duct system is not yet fully up and running.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso on Friday played down the effect his latest engine failure could have on his bid to win the 2010 world championship.<\/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":[1275,1270,1221,5262,149,93,5261,5340,1239,5368,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514"}],"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=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}