{"id":9972,"date":"2010-12-04T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T05:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2010-12-03T22:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T03:03:03","slug":"di-resta-better-than-champion-vettel-franchitti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/di-resta-better-than-champion-vettel-franchitti\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Resta better than champion Vettel &#8211; Franchitti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul di Resta is even better than F1&#8217;s new world champion Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>That is the claim of triple Indycar title winner Dario Franchitti, who is Scot di Resta&#8217;s cousin.<\/p>\n<p>Di Resta, 24, is on the cusp of his formula one debut, having secured the 2010 DTM title and forged a strong link with Force India by spending last season as reserve and Friday driver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He definitely has the skills,&#8221; 37-year-old Franchitti told Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is one of the most talented drivers I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; he added.\u00a0 &#8220;He beat Vettel in the Formula 3 Euro series (in 2006).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sebastian is a good driver, but Paul is better,&#8221; said Franchitti.<\/p>\n<p>Di Resta told Motorsport-Magazin.com: &#8220;Sebastian and I have had some ding-dong encounters, and I hope and feel sure that we can continue this in the formula one arena.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul di Resta is even better than F1&#8217;s new world champion Sebastian Vettel. That is the claim of triple Indycar title winner Dario Franchitti, who is Scot di Resta&#8217;s cousin. Di Resta, 24, is on the cusp of his formula one debut, having secured the 2010 DTM title and forged a strong link with Force &#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":[225,5262,5340,323,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972"}],"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=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9973,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}