{"id":11733,"date":"2011-03-31T06:50:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11733"},"modified":"2011-03-31T06:50:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:50:25","slug":"ricciardo-to-skip-race-for-chinese-f1-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ricciardo-to-skip-race-for-chinese-f1-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricciardo to skip race for Chinese F1 duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo will sit out the opening round of the Formula Renault 3.5 season next month as his F1 duties take precedence.<\/p>\n<p>Putting enormous pressure on Toro Rosso&#8217;s race lineup this year, the Australian has been appointed by team owner Red Bull to drive on the morning of every initial F1 practice session.<\/p>\n<p>He kicked off his duties in Melbourne, and will be back in action in Malaysia next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>One week after that, the F1 circus heads to China, but 21-year-old Ricciardo is also scheduled to commence his 2011 Formula Renault campaign with the Red Bull-sponsored ISR team in Spain in mid-April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately that means that I&#8217;m going to miss the first Formula Renault 3.5 race in Spain,&#8221; he confirmed to ozracingwrap.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to get more F1 time, and I&#8217;m hugely grateful for the opportunity, but it just means I&#8217;m going to have to work a bit harder to win the title this year,&#8221; he smiled.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo will sit out the opening round of the Formula Renault 3.5 season next month as his F1 duties take precedence. Putting enormous pressure on Toro Rosso&#8217;s race lineup this year, the Australian has been appointed by team owner Red Bull to drive on the morning of every initial F1 practice session. He kicked &#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":[1096,5262,5340,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11733"}],"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=11733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11734,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11733\/revisions\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}