{"id":5559,"date":"2010-05-19T06:37:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2010-05-19T06:37:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:37:53","slug":"lotus-now-eyeing-established-teams-kovalainen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-now-eyeing-established-teams-kovalainen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus now eyeing established teams &#8211; Kovalainen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus is almost ready to begin fighting with F1&#8217;s established teams, according to Heikki Kovalainen.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Malaysian backed outfit has been the most impressive of the sport&#8217;s three new entrants this year, particularly in the wake of a recent upgrade for the T127 car.<\/p>\n<p>And despite Kovalainen retiring in Monaco with a steering problem, the Finn thinks Lotus is getting ready to make its next step.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a time I was able to drive at the same pace as the Renault of Petrov,&#8221; he is quoted by France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo after the famous street race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We showed in Monaco that we are clearly the best of the new teams and that we will soon be able to fight with the teams in front of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>28-year-old Kovalainen&#8217;s was the fourteenth fastest race lap in Monaco, ahead of the Saubers and even Rubens Barrichello&#8217;s Williams.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus is almost ready to begin fighting with F1&#8217;s established teams, according to Heikki Kovalainen.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,517,912],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559"}],"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=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}