{"id":10956,"date":"2011-02-09T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10956"},"modified":"2011-02-09T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T12:00:16","slug":"virgin-crew-gives-dambrosio-a-tasty-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-crew-gives-dambrosio-a-tasty-nickname\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin crew gives d&#8217;Ambrosio a tasty nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerome d&#8217;Ambrosio&#8217;s F1 mechanics have given the Belgian rookie a flavoursome new nickname.<\/p>\n<p>In the Virgin garage, the 25-year-old is now affectionately known as &#8216;Custard&#8217;, with the word pasted on his cockpit when he began testing for the 2011 season at Valencia last week.<\/p>\n<p>Ambrosia is a well-known UK brand of custard and rice pudding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just shows I fit in the team pretty well straight way, so I&#8217;m happy,&#8221; d&#8217;Ambrosio is quoted as saying by The Sun.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first Belgian to race in F1 since Bertrand Gachot in 1995, even though Gachot was actually born in Luxembourg and carried a French passport.<\/p>\n<p>But d&#8217;Ambrosio is not so bold as to predict that his presence will now help to secure the future of the Belgian grand prix at famous Spa-Francorchamps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t have the arrogance to say that I will bring back Spa to the old days by myself,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But for sure it will be something positive and hopefully we will be able to build on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerome d&#8217;Ambrosio&#8217;s F1 mechanics have given the Belgian rookie a flavoursome new nickname. In the Virgin garage, the 25-year-old is now affectionately known as &#8216;Custard&#8217;, with the word pasted on his cockpit when he began testing for the 2011 season at Valencia last week. Ambrosia is a well-known UK brand of custard and rice pudding. &#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":[2807,5262,5340,275],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956"}],"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=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10957,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions\/10957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}