{"id":12206,"date":"2011-05-08T07:22:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2011-05-08T07:22:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:22:27","slug":"todt-wants-some-in-season-tests-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/todt-wants-some-in-season-tests-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Todt wants some in-season tests in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Todt held a media briefing at Istanbul Park on Sunday so low-key most journalists were not aware it had taken place.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare meeting for the Frenchman with the press at a grand prix, his minders reportedly posted a notice in the media centre that was not seen by most journalists after qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Snippets of the press conference have however emerged, including those posted by BBC pitlane correspondent Ted Kravitz saying Todt called the total in-season testing ban &#8220;stupid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Todt reportedly wants to allow teams to do a few tests next season, and if they do not agree he said the rule will definitely be introduced in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph&#8217;s Tom Cary, who was one of many reporters to miss the briefing, described Todt&#8217;s media aproach as &#8220;poor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Times&#8217; Kevin Eason said the meeting had been &#8220;so low key, key media missed it, including top agency staff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Todt held a media briefing at Istanbul Park on Sunday so low-key most journalists were not aware it had taken place. In a rare meeting for the Frenchman with the press at a grand prix, his minders reportedly posted a notice in the media centre that was not seen by most journalists after qualifying. &#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":[5262,5300,5340,284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206"}],"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=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12207,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions\/12207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}