{"id":11570,"date":"2011-03-18T07:13:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T11:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11570"},"modified":"2011-03-18T07:13:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T11:13:31","slug":"virgin-quite-a-bit-slower-than-lotus-glock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-quite-a-bit-slower-than-lotus-glock\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin &#8216;quite a bit&#8217; slower than Lotus &#8211; Glock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timo Glock has admitted that Virgin is set to have a difficult start to the 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p>The team had hoped to take a step up after an uncompetitive debut in 2010, but the new MVR-02 has looked significantly slower than the Team Lotus car in recent testing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to say our laptimes do not look good,&#8221; admitted German Glock, who will also start the season at less than 100 per cent after recent appendix surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Compared to Lotus, we are lagging behind quite a bit on the long runs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are definitely a bit off where we wanted to be and I can only hope that our technical director Nick Wirth can give us a good car for the fourth race in Turkey,&#8221; he told spox.com.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timo Glock has admitted that Virgin is set to have a difficult start to the 2011 season. The team had hoped to take a step up after an uncompetitive debut in 2010, but the new MVR-02 has looked significantly slower than the Team Lotus car in recent testing. &#8220;I have to say our laptimes do &#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":[5262,5340,457,359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570"}],"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=11570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11571,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions\/11571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}