{"id":11659,"date":"2011-03-26T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11659"},"modified":"2011-03-26T09:23:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:23:31","slug":"stewards-say-no-to-hrt-107pc-rule-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/stewards-say-no-to-hrt-107pc-rule-exemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewards say no to HRT 107pc rule exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HRT applied for an exemption from the 107 pc qualifying rule in Australia but it was thrown out by FIA stewards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our times were not good enough, but given the number of laps we&#8217;ve done this weekend, we probably are not so bad,&#8221; said the team&#8217;s Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan.<\/p>\n<p>But the stewards, including former grand prix winner Johnny Herbert, did not agree that &#8220;exceptional circumstances&#8221; explained the Spanish team&#8217;s lack of pace.<\/p>\n<p>The grid will therefore feature 22, and not 24, cars for Sunday&#8217;s Melbourne race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The car is capable of running a lot quicker than today,&#8221; insisted team boss Colin Kolles.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ll be back stronger than ever in Malaysia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Added Italian driver Vitantonio Liuzzi: &#8220;The rules are the rules.\u00a0 Now we&#8217;re focused on the next race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRT applied for an exemption from the 107 pc qualifying rule in Australia but it was thrown out by FIA stewards. &#8220;Our times were not good enough, but given the number of laps we&#8217;ve done this weekend, we probably are not so bad,&#8221; said the team&#8217;s Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan. But the stewards, including former &#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":[5262,5300,5340,842],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659"}],"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=11659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11660,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions\/11660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}