{"id":13856,"date":"2011-10-07T06:52:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13856"},"modified":"2011-10-07T06:52:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T10:52:10","slug":"formula-nippon-faster-than-f1-backmarkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/formula-nippon-faster-than-f1-backmarkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula Nippon faster than F1 backmarkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Lotterer on Friday boasted that his Formula Nippon single seater is faster than the F1 cars produced by F1 backmakers Virgin and HRT.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old German, who is leading the Japanese championship ahead of former Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima, won the series&#8217; Suzuka round in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Theoretically, if I would have entered today&#8217;s first free practice with my Formula Nippon, I would be nineteenth,&#8221; Lotterer, a Jaguar test driver in 2002, said at Suzuka.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Suzuka pole sitter Naoki Yamamoto&#8217;s Honda-powered Nippon qualified with a time of 1.40.470, which was faster than any Virgin or HRT driver could manage on Friday morning at the same Japanese circuit.<\/p>\n<p>And that Formula Nippon time is just half a second behind Friday morning&#8217;s slowest Team Lotus runner Karun Chandhok.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 Formula Nippon single seaters are built by American manufacturer Swift and powered by 3.4 litre V8 engines supplied by Toyota or Honda.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andre Lotterer on Friday boasted that his Formula Nippon single seater is faster than the F1 cars produced by F1 backmakers Virgin and HRT. The 29-year-old German, who is leading the Japanese championship ahead of former Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima, won the series&#8217; Suzuka round in May. &#8220;Theoretically, if I would have entered today&#8217;s first &#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":[5262,3305,5340,842,2281,359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856"}],"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=13856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13857,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856\/revisions\/13857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}