{"id":5240,"date":"2010-05-10T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2010-05-10T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:29:19","slug":"mercedes-to-use-old-2010-car-in-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-to-use-old-2010-car-in-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes to use old 2010 car in Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes will revert to its original 2010 car for the Monaco grand prix this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Brackley based team unveiled a car with a longer wheelbase in Spain last weekend, which is tipped to have helped Michael Schumacher get the upper hand over his teammate Nico Rosberg for the first time in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>But according to German media sources, the pre-Barcelona package &#8211; which in Rosberg&#8217;s hands was driven to the podium twice in four races &#8211; will be up and running again in Monaco because it better suits the slow and twisty curves of the unique street layout.<\/p>\n<p>The shorter-wheelbase car will however be fitted with the latest aerodynamic innovations in Monaco, including the knife-like rollover structure and engine cover air inlets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very optimistic that we will be more competitive than in Barcelona,&#8221; team CEO Nick Fry is quoted as saying by Germany&#8217;s RTL.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes will revert to its original 2010 car for the Monaco grand prix this weekend.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,34,92,57,116,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240"}],"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=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5241,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}