{"id":10725,"date":"2011-01-26T07:07:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10725"},"modified":"2011-01-26T07:07:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:07:58","slug":"di-grassi-could-become-pirelli-tester-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/di-grassi-could-become-pirelli-tester-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Grassi could become Pirelli tester &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas di Grassi could become a test driver with the sport&#8217;s new official tyre supplier Pirelli in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>After just a single season on the grid, the Brazilian has lost his Virgin drive for 2011 to the better-funded Belgian Jerome d&#8217;Ambrosio.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat is reporting that di Grassi, 26, has been linked with Pirelli&#8217;s ongoing private track testing programme for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Main Pirelli tyre tester Pedro de la Rosa&#8217;s contract runs out in a few days, but it is expected that the Spaniard will continue to head the marque&#8217;s development this year.<\/p>\n<p>Di Grassi, meanwhile, could be set to replace de la Rosa&#8217;s driving deputy Romain Grosjean.<\/p>\n<p>Grosjean has been signed to return to the GP2 grid in 2010 with the DAMS team.<\/p>\n<p>Given DAMS&#8217; close links with Renault, and the fact that Grosjean is expected to join Renault in 2011 as third driver, a parallel role at Pirelli for the Frenchman is unlikely on the grounds of partiality.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas di Grassi could become a test driver with the sport&#8217;s new official tyre supplier Pirelli in 2011. After just a single season on the grid, the Brazilian has lost his Virgin drive for 2011 to the better-funded Belgian Jerome d&#8217;Ambrosio. Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat is reporting that di Grassi, 26, has been linked with Pirelli&#8217;s &#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":[5262,5340,600,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725"}],"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=10725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10726,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions\/10726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}