{"id":11647,"date":"2011-03-25T07:03:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11647"},"modified":"2011-03-25T07:03:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T11:03:02","slug":"valsecchi-disappointed-with-chandhok-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/valsecchi-disappointed-with-chandhok-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Valsecchi disappointed with Chandhok drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davide Valsecchi has admitted he was disappointed to miss out on Team Lotus&#8217; Friday driving duties in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian and GP2 driver was initially selected to drive in Jarno Trulli&#8217;s car in initial practice, but Karun Chandhok was signed at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat reports that Valsecchi has now been promised a green T128 cockpit for first practice in Malaysia and China.<\/p>\n<p>But he admits he was disappointed with the Chandhok news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was all agreed and I flew such a long trip to Australia, so of course (I was disappointed),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the team felt this (Malaysia-China) is a better option for me, because Albert Park is not a good place for a newcomer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Chandhok crashed Trulli&#8217;s car within three corners of his out-lap early on Friday in Australia, and the team confirmed it had not been caused by a technical fault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Got the car back, a lot less damage than we expected so should be ready for Jarno in FP2,&#8221; said Mike Gascoyne on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davide Valsecchi has admitted he was disappointed to miss out on Team Lotus&#8217; Friday driving duties in Melbourne. The Italian and GP2 driver was initially selected to drive in Jarno Trulli&#8217;s car in initial practice, but Karun Chandhok was signed at the last minute. Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat reports that Valsecchi has now been promised a &#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":[2241,2399,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647"}],"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=11647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11648,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11647\/revisions\/11648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}