{"id":6163,"date":"2010-06-09T06:29:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T10:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2010-06-09T06:29:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T10:29:48","slug":"fisi-tests-f10-as-button-ponders-unusual-ferrari-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fisi-tests-f10-as-button-ponders-unusual-ferrari-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisi tests F10 as Button ponders &#8216;unusual&#8217; Ferrari slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ferrari bids to return to the pace, test driver Giancarlo Fisichella was at the wheel of the F10&#8217;s latest specification late last week.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Roman conducted an aerodynamic test at Vairano, with the specific package to be raced at Montreal&#8217;s unique Circuit Gille Villeneuve this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>However, the major upgrade is not due until the following Valencia round, with the Maranello based team confirming that in Canada the car will be in essentially &#8220;the same specification&#8221; as it was in Turkey two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>At Istanbul Park, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso were notably off the pace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite unusual,&#8221; McLaren&#8217;s Jenson Button told the Toronto media at an event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They (Ferrari) had the perfect winter.\u00a0 They were very quick, very consistent and very reliable and we were thinking, &#8216;Wow, those guys are going to be untouchable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But they can come back.\u00a0 They&#8217;re a very strong team, Fernando and Felipe have the experience.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t ever count them out.\u00a0 We never forget them,&#8221; added the reigning world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Stefano Domenicali said Ferrari must avoid becoming downbeat about its situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That would be no use when there are still two thirds of the season yet ahead,&#8221; he is quoted by the French language Canadian newspaper La Presse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We put a lot of energy into developing our F-duct and that may have delayed slightly other areas,&#8221; added Domenicali.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many things can change from race to race and we are certainly not lowering our heads and becoming downcast &#8212; that is for those who do not reach their goals, and that is certainly not the case with Ferrari.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ferrari bids to return to the pace, test driver Giancarlo Fisichella was at the wheel of the F10&#8217;s latest specification late last week. On Thursday, the Roman conducted an aerodynamic test at Vairano, with the specific package to be raced at Montreal&#8217;s unique Circuit Gille Villeneuve this weekend. However, the major upgrade is not &#8230;<\/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":[1175,5262,93,5340,272,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163"}],"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=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6164,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}