{"id":7236,"date":"2010-07-24T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T11:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2010-07-24T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T11:49:17","slug":"many-drivers-struggling-with-hard-tyres-in-2010-massa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/many-drivers-struggling-with-hard-tyres-in-2010-massa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Many drivers&#8217; struggling with hard tyres in 2010 &#8211; Massa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa insists he is not the only driver struggling with Bridgestone&#8217;s tyres in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>After his 2009 accident and return to the grid this season, the Brazilian has had a high-profile struggle to keep up with Ferrari newcomer Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>But Massa, 29, has played down any link between his difficulties and his recovery from head injuries, insisting his only problem is Bridgestone&#8217;s harder compounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have even tried changing my driving style to get them working faster and better,&#8221; he is quoted by Portuguese-language Globo Esporte.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone talks about me, but many, many drivers are having the same problem,&#8221; added Massa, the 2008 championship runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>He admits that Ferrari in general has also had a difficult season so far, but thinks recent developments have made the F10 much more competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we can be optimistic for the second half,&#8221; added Massa.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa insists he is not the only driver struggling with Bridgestone&#8217;s tyres in 2010. After his 2009 accident and return to the grid this season, the Brazilian has had a high-profile struggle to keep up with Ferrari newcomer Fernando Alonso. But Massa, 29, has played down any link between his difficulties and his recovery &#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":[5262,130,93,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236"}],"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=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7237,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/7237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}