{"id":18193,"date":"2013-02-22T02:03:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/alonso-switched-on-in-f1-winter-testing\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:03:30","slug":"alonso-switched-on-in-f1-winter-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/alonso-switched-on-in-f1-winter-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso switched on in F1 winter testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former world champion Fernando Alonso went fastest on the penultimate day of Formula 1\u2032s first winter test at Barcelona on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of teams dedicated the afternoon to the first full-race simulations of 2013, meaning that the morning order was largely unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>It also meant Alonso, who eventually worked his way down to a 1m21.875s before lunch, stayed on top for the remainder of the third day in Catalunya.<\/p>\n<p>His time is the fastest seen so far at Barcelona and almost half a second quicker than the corresponding soft-compound best of 2012 winter testing at the track.<\/p>\n<p>As was the case in the morning, Nico Hulkenberg and Romain Grosjean occupied second and third respectively, both within four tenths of a second of Alonso\u2019s time. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.eurosport.yahoo.com\/news\/formula-1-alonso-sets-early-day-three-pace-132158055.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eurosport<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Fernando Alonso \u2013 Ferrari \u2013 1:21.875 \u2013 97 laps<br \/>\n2. Nico Hulkenberg \u2013 Sauber \u2013 1:22.160 \u2013 +0.285 \u2013 91<br \/>\n3. Romain Grosjean \u2013 Lotus \u2013 1:22.188 \u2013 +0.313 \u2013 119<br \/>\n4. Nico Rosberg \u2013 Mercedes \u2013 1:22.611 \u2013 +0.736 \u2013 108<br \/>\n5. Pastor Maldonado \u2013 Williams \u2013 1:22.675 \u2013 +0.800 \u2013 79<br \/>\n6. Valtteri Bottas \u2013 Williams \u2013 1:22.826 \u2013 +0.951 \u2013 68<br \/>\n7. Jenson Button \u2013 McLaren \u2013 1:22.840 \u2013 +0.965 \u2013 71<br \/>\n8. Adrian Sutil \u2013 Force India \u2013 1:22.877 \u2013 +1.002 \u2013 78<br \/>\n9. Mark Webber \u2013 Red Bull \u2013 1:23.024 \u2013 +1.149 \u2013 108<br \/>\n10. Jean-Eric Vergne \u2013 Toro Rosso \u2013 1:23.366 \u2013 +1.491 \u2013 106<br \/>\n11. Max Chilton \u2013 Marussia \u2013 1:25.690 \u2013 +3.815 \u2013 58<br \/>\n12. Giedo van der Garde \u2013 Caterham \u2013 1:26.17s \u2013 +4.302 \u2013 83<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world champion Fernando Alonso went fastest on the penultimate day of Formula 1\u2032s first winter test at Barcelona on Thursday. The majority of teams dedicated the afternoon to the first full-race simulations of 2013, meaning that the morning order was largely unchanged. It also meant Alonso, who eventually worked his way down to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}