{"id":4639,"date":"2010-04-19T06:47:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T10:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2010-04-19T06:47:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T10:47:23","slug":"sauber-not-yet-pointing-fingers-at-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/sauber-not-yet-pointing-fingers-at-ferrari\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauber not yet pointing fingers at Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Despite Sauber suffering yet another engine failure in China on Sunday, the fingers of blame did not immediately point in Ferrari&#8217;s direction.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After engine overheating problems in Bahrain, Fernando Alonso&#8217;s retirement and two Sauber failures in Malaysia, and then a practice blow-up for Alonso in Shanghai practice, the 2.4 litre unit in de la Rosa&#8217;s C29 then expired in the early stages of the Chinese grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Having dodged the strategy chaos to be running fourth, the failure was particularly bitter for the Spaniard and the struggling Swiss team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team and the driver did everything right,&#8221; Peter Sauber told Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari didn&#8217;t mention the failure in its official post-race report, while Sauber said de la Rosa suffered a &#8220;technical failure&#8221; with a cause that &#8220;still needs to be analysed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Said new technical director James Key: &#8220;It is engine-related but we can&#8217;t say whether it&#8217;s a specific engine problem or a problem related to the chassis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for the currently uncompetitive C29 car, Key admitted his early impressions were not all good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very well-built car, but there are some areas that we need to work on,&#8221; the former Force India man is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Sauber suffering yet another engine failure in China on Sunday, the fingers of blame did not immediately point in Ferrari&#8217;s direction.<\/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":[5262,93,5261,5340,243],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639"}],"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=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}