{"id":10914,"date":"2011-02-06T09:06:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T14:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10914"},"modified":"2011-02-06T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T14:06:52","slug":"chandhok-to-test-team-lotus-car-fernandes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/chandhok-to-test-team-lotus-car-fernandes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandhok to test Team Lotus car &#8211; Fernandes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karun Chandhok will test at two forthcoming formula one tests, Team Lotus boss Tony Fernandes confirmed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Chandhok, the former HRT driver, was seen wearing a Team Lotus jacket at the opening pre-season test at Valencia last week, amid reports he is a frontrunner to occupy a reserve driver role in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like him to be reserve driver but we&#8217;ve got to see whether it all works out, that&#8217;s the plan,&#8221; team owner Fernandes said from Malaysia after it was announced he has been appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Chandhok) is going to get a couple of slots in the testing now in Jerez and Barcelona,&#8221; the millionaire told Reuters.\u00a0 &#8220;And then we&#8217;ll decide after that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Technical boss) Mike (Gascoyne) and (CEO) Riad (Asmat) and everyone else feel he&#8217;s the right guy to add value to the team,&#8221; added Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karun Chandhok will test at two forthcoming formula one tests, Team Lotus boss Tony Fernandes confirmed on Sunday. Indian Chandhok, the former HRT driver, was seen wearing a Team Lotus jacket at the opening pre-season test at Valencia last week, amid reports he is a frontrunner to occupy a reserve driver role in 2011. &#8220;We &#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":[2241,5262,5340,742,305,635,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914"}],"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=10914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10915,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions\/10915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}