{"id":4805,"date":"2010-04-27T06:48:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2010-04-27T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:44:00","slug":"renault-kubica-biggest-surprise-of-2010-de-la-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/renault-kubica-biggest-surprise-of-2010-de-la-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault, Kubica &#8216;biggest surprise&#8217; of 2010 &#8211; de la Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Pedro de la Rosa has singled out Renault as the &#8220;biggest surprise&#8221; of the 2010 season so far.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the wounds of the crashgate scandal still fresh, the Enstone based team went into March&#8217;s season opener with new owners and management.<\/p>\n<p>In winter testing, Renault&#8217;s was among the slowest of the established cars, with a single seater that closely resembled last year&#8217;s uncompetitive R29.<\/p>\n<p>But after four races, the R30 is a healthy fifth in the constructors&#8217; standings behind the prominent top-four title protagonists.<\/p>\n<p>Team newcomer Robert Kubica, now linked with a move for 2011 to Ferrari, has never been out of the final &#8216;Q3&#8217; group this year, and was even on the podium in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to nominate his biggest surprise of 2010, Sauber racer and F1 veteran Pedro de la Rosa answered: &#8220;For most people in the paddock it is Renault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The performance of the team, and particularly Kubica, has been sensational.\u00a0 In testing we were usually quicker than them,&#8221; de la Rosa told the Swiss newspaper Blick.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de la Rosa has singled out Renault as the &#8220;biggest surprise&#8221; of the 2010 season so far.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,271,55,96],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805"}],"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=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4806,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}