{"id":4790,"date":"2010-04-26T06:31:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2010-04-26T06:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:31:29","slug":"hulkenberg-admits-on-form-barrichellos-pace-puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hulkenberg-admits-on-form-barrichellos-pace-puzzling\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulkenberg admits on-form Barrichello&#8217;s pace &#8216;puzzling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rookie Nico Hulkenberg has joined Williams team bosses in raving about the form of F1&#8217;s most experienced driver Rubens Barrichello.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the end of a miserable 2008 season with Honda, the veteran Brazilian seemed destined to bow out of F1 on a low.<\/p>\n<p>But the team instead reinvented itself as Brawn, where Barrichello out-performed his teammate and eventual champion Jenson Button in the second half of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Barrichello, 37, has moved to Williams this year and so far has shown the way to his highly rated young teammate Hulkenberg, the reigning champion of GP2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How he drives the car just eight tenths slower than the front is puzzling,&#8221; the 22-year-old German told Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then when the car is really difficult, Rubens puts in a lap that really makes me wonder how he does it,&#8221; added Hulkenberg.<\/p>\n<p>However, he sees the situation as a positive one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is an experienced driver who last year won races in a winning car.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m with him in qualifying and beating him in the races, it will be a success,&#8221; said Hulkenberg.<\/p>\n<p>But if it takes some more time to catch up to Barrichello, Hulkenberg said he is not worried.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a learning year and part of the development process,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie Nico Hulkenberg has joined Williams team bosses in raving about the form of F1&#8217;s most experienced driver Rubens Barrichello.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,448,352,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790"}],"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=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}