{"id":7259,"date":"2010-07-24T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2010-07-24T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:55:33","slug":"cool-but-dry-race-expected-at-hockenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/cool-but-dry-race-expected-at-hockenheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool but dry race expected at Hockenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday at Hockenheim should host a dry German grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>There has been often heavy rain at the venue since Thursday, despite the fact that the days preceding F1&#8217;s arrival in Germany were very hot.<\/p>\n<p>Some of that blue sky could peek through the predicted cloud-cover on Sunday, even though forecasters are not ruling out the possibility of rain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are hoping for some warmer weather,&#8221; admitted Red Bull team boss Christian Horner on Saturday, after Sebastian Vettel pipped Ferrari&#8217;s Fernando Alonso to pole position by the merest margin of 2 thousandths.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari and Bridgestone calculated that the gap equated to 15 centimetres at the chequered flag.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari&#8217;s increased pace has the Italian camp determined to finally return to the top step of the podium, after a string of disappointing results.<\/p>\n<p>Inclement weather for Sunday is therefore not on the agenda: &#8220;We hope we can finally have a normal race,&#8221; said team boss Stefano Domenicali.<\/p>\n<p>Pole sitter Vettel commented: &#8220;I heard the weather forecast (for the race) is dry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday at Hockenheim should host a dry German grand prix. There has been often heavy rain at the venue since Thursday, despite the fact that the days preceding F1&#8217;s arrival in Germany were very hot. Some of that blue sky could peek through the predicted cloud-cover on Sunday, even though forecasters are not ruling out &#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":[5262,5340,1548,1832],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259"}],"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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}