{"id":9119,"date":"2010-10-22T07:06:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9119"},"modified":"2010-10-22T07:06:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:06:29","slug":"long-straight-set-to-be-korean-headache-for-red-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/long-straight-set-to-be-korean-headache-for-red-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Long straight set to be Korean headache for Red Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening sector of the Yeongam circuit in Korea looks set to be a headache for Red Bull this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Although grounded for most of the opening session on Friday with mechanics working at the rear of his car, McLaren&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton still managed to top the timing sheet.<\/p>\n<p>The fastest Red Bull was Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s, half a second behind and fourth, with the now extremely-efficient F-duct on Renault propelling Robert Kubica to the second best time.<\/p>\n<p>The problem for Red Bull in the first sector is the ultra-long straight, with Ferrari also proving faster there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sector one doesn&#8217;t look like our home ground,&#8221; agreed Vettel, &#8220;but I think sector two and sector three should give us a possibility to catch up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His teammate Mark Webber, recalling August&#8217;s Belgian grand prix where Hamilton won, added: &#8220;It was the same at Spa.\u00a0 We knew that we were going to be quite vulnerable up the hill there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in Korea, the MP4-25 reached 316kph on the long straight, nearly 10kph faster than Red Bull&#8217;s RB6.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening sector of the Yeongam circuit in Korea looks set to be a headache for Red Bull this weekend. Although grounded for most of the opening session on Friday with mechanics working at the rear of his car, McLaren&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton still managed to top the timing sheet. The fastest Red Bull was Sebastian &#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":[5262,5340,1282,5284,129,1812],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119"}],"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=9119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9120,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions\/9120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}