{"id":3147,"date":"2014-11-16T06:29:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T05:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2014-11-16T06:29:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T05:29:40","slug":"felix-says-pace-will-decide-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/felix-says-pace-will-decide-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix says pace will decide outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gal511.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3145\" alt=\"gal51\" src=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gal511-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gal511-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gal511-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gal511.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Felix thinks pure pace, and not strategy, will be the main factor in the quest for Macau Grand Prix victory.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Felix claims Qualification Race victory\" href=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/felix-claims-qualification-race-victory\/?lang=en\"><strong>After winning yesterday\u2019s Qualification Race<\/strong><\/a>, Felix will start Sunday\u2019s all-deciding finale from pole position, making him prone to <a title=\"Explained: the Lisboa slipstreaming effect\" href=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/explained-the-lisboa-slipstreaming-effect\/?lang=en\"><strong>first-lap slipstreaming attacks<\/strong><\/a> and potential charges from rivals at safety car restarts.<\/p>\n<p>Felix, however, says that while the strategic aspects will have an impact, victory is eventually likely to befall the one who simply sports the strongest pace around the tight confines of the Guia street circuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrategy is always a factor at Macau, and yes, the timing of safety car restarts and slipstreaming will be important, but at the end of the day that\u2019s all out of your hands and I think pace will be the ultimate key,\u201d Felix says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the other things just happen, and it\u2019s nothing you can really prepare for. That\u2019s what makes Macau so special. Looking at the grid we have, and our main rivals, I think it\u2019s the same for everyone at the front and whatever happens on the first lap there will be opportunities to fight back if you are quick enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Suncity Group Macau Grand Prix is set to start at 15.30 local time (GMT+08:00). Felix will share the front row of the grid with M\u00fccke Motorsport team-mate Lucas Auer, with Tom Blomqvist (Jagonya Ayam with Carlin), reigning European Champion Esteban Ocon (SJM Theodore Racing by Prema) and Nick Cassidy (ThreeBond with T-Sport) rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014 Suncity Group Macau Grand Prix &#8211; full starting grid:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/grid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3148\" alt=\"grid\" src=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/grid.jpg\" width=\"785\" height=\"1121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/grid.jpg 785w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/grid-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/grid-717x1024.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix thinks pure pace, and not strategy, will be the main factor in the quest for Macau Grand Prix victory. After winning yesterday\u2019s Qualification Race, Felix will start Sunday\u2019s all-deciding finale from pole position, making him prone to first-lap slipstreaming attacks and potential charges from rivals at safety car restarts. Felix, however, says that while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}