{"id":744,"date":"2009-08-21T15:09:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T19:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2009-08-21T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T19:09:05","slug":"f1-back-in-action-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"F1 back in action this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vettel2-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-745\" title=\"vettel2-lg\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vettel2-lg-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"vettel2-lg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vettel2-lg-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vettel2-lg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, we thought we&#8217;d be seeing Michael Schumacher, but with his decision not to race, the temperature has lowered considerably on this, the first race back after Summer holiday.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be interesting to see who has benefitted from the long break.\u00a0 McLaren showed some signs of life last month, even though the team is out of the running for this year&#8217;s championship.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still liking the push from Red Bull and young Sebastian Vettel (pictured above).<\/p>\n<p>The future of the sport continues to be a bit of a question mark.\u00a0 What will the cars look like next year?\u00a0 Will there be a uniform budget cap?\u00a0 Also, we&#8217;re starting to wonder who will be racing where.\u00a0 We known that Massa is out for this race, at least, but will he be back this season, or even next year?\u00a0 BMW has left, but the Sauber team may yet be bailed out, and there&#8217;s already talk of Ferrari power.\u00a0 Yet, it is doubtful that a proven Kubica, a proven race winner and up-and-coming young driver, will stay with the team.\u00a0 Where will he be next year?\u00a0 And is Kimi bound for rally racing, leaving F1 altogether?<\/p>\n<p>So, with all these murmurs and rumblings quietly roiling in the background, i think it will be nice to have an actual race to distract us form the mysteries of the future.\u00a0 by this time tomorrow, we&#8217;ll know who is on pole for the street course in Valencia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we thought we&#8217;d be seeing Michael Schumacher, but with his decision not to race, the temperature has lowered considerably on this, the first race back after Summer holiday.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be interesting to see who has benefitted from the long &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[626,1481,700,232,699,550,627,701,553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}