{"id":1335,"date":"2010-01-08T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2010-01-08T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:54:01","slug":"gascoyne-reveals-lotus-debut-date-double-diffuser-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/gascoyne-reveals-lotus-debut-date-double-diffuser-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Gascoyne reveals Lotus debut date, double diffuser ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The new F1 team Lotus&#8217; 2010 car will not be ready to run at the opening two group tests of the pre-season at Valencia and Jerez next month, Mike Gascoyne has admitted.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Autosport.com reports that the Malaysian team&#8217;s single seater will instead be driven for the first time at the third test, at Jerez, in the middle of next month.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus technical boss Gascoyne said <!--more-->the team will also travel to the final test at Barcelona prior to the Bahrain season opener.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That (Jerez) will be the first time the world will see the car in action &#8212; and we are hoping that chassis two will run for the last two days of the Barcelona test,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gascoyne told the same website that double diffusers, controversially introduced and then declared legal by the FIA in 2009, are likely to be banned for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is very sensible and very easy to do &#8212; just tighten up the regulations and it is done,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new F1 team Lotus&#8217; 2010 car will not be ready to run at the opening two group tests of the pre-season at Valencia and Jerez next month, Mike Gascoyne has admitted. \u00a0 Autosport.com reports that the Malaysian team&#8217;s single seater will instead be driven for the first time at the third test, at Jerez, &#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":[308,5262,5300,5312,306,305,5308],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"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=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}