{"id":11600,"date":"2011-03-22T07:03:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11600"},"modified":"2011-03-22T07:03:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:03:04","slug":"chandhok-to-drive-lotus-in-friday-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/chandhok-to-drive-lotus-in-friday-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandhok to drive Lotus in Friday practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former HRT driver Karun Chandhok has joined Team Lotus as its 2011 reserve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be taking part in a number of Friday practice sessions for Team Lotus including FP1 in Melbourne,&#8221; said the team in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously believed that Davide Valsecchi would be driving in Australia in first practice, but along with Ricardo Teixeira he is now only listed as a &#8220;test driver&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian Luiz Razia, meanwhile, has been confirmed as Lotus&#8217; &#8220;third driver&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been talking to the team for quite a while about a role with them and I&#8217;m delighted we&#8217;re now able to confirm that I will be driving for Team Lotus in 2011,&#8221; said Indian Chandhok.<\/p>\n<p>He said the details of more Friday outings in 2011 &#8220;are being worked out now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former HRT driver Karun Chandhok has joined Team Lotus as its 2011 reserve. &#8220;He will be taking part in a number of Friday practice sessions for Team Lotus including FP1 in Melbourne,&#8221; said the team in a statement. It was previously believed that Davide Valsecchi would be driving in Australia in first practice, but along &#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],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600"}],"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=11600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11601,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}