{"id":9760,"date":"2010-11-19T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2010-11-19T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T12:24:13","slug":"new-f1-tracks-must-allow-overtaking-todt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-f1-tracks-must-allow-overtaking-todt\/","title":{"rendered":"New F1 tracks must allow overtaking &#8211; Todt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Todt has vowed to push hard to improve the spectacle of overtaking in formula one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to encourage more overtaking,&#8221; the FIA president said in an interview with La Stampa.\u00a0 &#8220;In Abu Dhabi it was impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pundits were critical after the 2010 finale at the spectacular Yas Marina circuit, because Fernando Alonso was unable to pass Vitaly Petrov, while another title contender &#8211; Lewis Hamilton &#8211; could not overtake Robert Kubica.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m speaking as the president of the FIA,&#8221; said Frenchman Todt.\u00a0 &#8220;Hamilton had fresh tyres and was 2 seconds faster than Kubica and yet he failed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From now on, before a new circuit is approved, we will evaluate the potential for the spectacle as well as the safety,&#8221; he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>And Autosprint quotes Todt as adding: &#8220;In this way we have already convened a meeting with technical experts such as Patrick Head and Rory Byrne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Todt has vowed to push hard to improve the spectacle of overtaking in formula one. &#8220;We need to encourage more overtaking,&#8221; the FIA president said in an interview with La Stampa.\u00a0 &#8220;In Abu Dhabi it was impossible.&#8221; Pundits were critical after the 2010 finale at the spectacular Yas Marina circuit, because Fernando Alonso was &#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":[5262,5300,5340,284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760"}],"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=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9761,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/9761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}