{"id":11716,"date":"2011-03-30T06:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T10:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2011-03-30T06:53:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T10:53:37","slug":"hrt-hopes-to-qualify-with-new-wing-karthikeyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hrt-hopes-to-qualify-with-new-wing-karthikeyan\/","title":{"rendered":"HRT hopes to qualify with new wing &#8211; Karthikeyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narain Karthikeyan insists he supports F1&#8217;s 107 per cent rule and is confident he will be quick enough to qualify for the second event of his return to the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Struggling Spanish team HRT had a horror opening weekend of its second season, hardly running at all in practice and then not lapping quick enough to qualify for the Australian race.<\/p>\n<p>When the F111 finally did get up and running in Melbourne, it featured the 2010 front wing cobbled onto the new chassis, after the 2011 nose failed a mandatory crash test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we get the new front wing &#8230; not if, we are going to get it,&#8221; Indian Karthikeyan told Reuters ahead of next weekend&#8217;s Malaysian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are reasonably confident that we will qualify and if all these things happen then we don&#8217;t have any excuse not to qualify for Malaysia,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Many insiders will be surprised if the car does qualify at Sepang, but Karthikeyan insists the 107 per cent rule &#8211; having returned for 2011 after a long absence &#8211; is right for formula one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically, they don&#8217;t want jokers to come in,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;We respect the 107 per cent rule.\u00a0 We are a serious team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it all gets kicking off, I think we are going to surprise a few people,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narain Karthikeyan insists he supports F1&#8217;s 107 per cent rule and is confident he will be quick enough to qualify for the second event of his return to the sport. Struggling Spanish team HRT had a horror opening weekend of its second season, hardly running at all in practice and then not lapping quick enough &#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":[5262,5340,842,1178,2327],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716"}],"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=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11717,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions\/11717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}