{"id":10707,"date":"2011-01-25T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10707"},"modified":"2011-01-25T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:45:10","slug":"no-new-car-for-hrt-until-bahrain-karthikeyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-new-car-for-hrt-until-bahrain-karthikeyan\/","title":{"rendered":"No new car for HRT until Bahrain &#8211; Karthikeyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HRT will not have a 2011-specification car at any of the three pre-season tests in Spain next month, newly appointed driver Narain Karthikeyan has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Spanish team&#8217;s boss Colin Kolles said the new car will not be ready for Valencia early in February and it might also be missing at Jerez shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe we will have the new one for the last two tests,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Indian Karthikeyan has told the Times of India that he will be driving the 2010 HRT at all of the tests at Valencia, Jerez and then Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth and final test will take place over four days in Bahrain a week before the season opener in the island Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our new car won&#8217;t be ready for the first three tests in Spain where I will drive the 2010 car,&#8221; said Karthikeyan.<\/p>\n<p>And even when the new car is finally ready, Karthikeyan admitted that the &#8220;biggest change&#8221; compared to last year&#8217;s car will be the Williams transmission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not likely to use the KERS,&#8221; he admitted, albeit confirming that the 2011 car will have an adjustable rear wing.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old also revealed that his 2011 teammate, and HRT&#8217;s reserve drivers, will be decided by the team &#8220;in a week or so&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRT will not have a 2011-specification car at any of the three pre-season tests in Spain next month, newly appointed driver Narain Karthikeyan has revealed. Earlier this month, the Spanish team&#8217;s boss Colin Kolles said the new car will not be ready for Valencia early in February and it might also be missing at Jerez &#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":[5262,5340,842,2327],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707"}],"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=10707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10708,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions\/10708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}