{"id":14643,"date":"2011-12-19T06:35:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T11:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14643"},"modified":"2011-12-19T06:35:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T11:35:59","slug":"williams-to-have-2012-car-for-first-jerez-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-to-have-2012-car-for-first-jerez-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams to have 2012 car for first Jerez test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams aims to have its 2012 car up and running for the first test of the official pre-season, technical director Mike Coughlan has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>When Mercedes announced that its next single seater will only be ready for the second test &#8211; taking place two weeks after Jerez in early February &#8211; it triggered speculation other teams might tread a similar path.<\/p>\n<p>But Ferrari and Red Bull have said they want to be ready for Jerez, and Oxfordshire based Williams has a similar plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The car is slated to be delivered to the race shop in mid-January and we&#8217;ll be ready to go to the first test in early February,&#8221; Coughlan told Williams&#8217; magazine.<\/p>\n<p>He said one Renault-powered FW34 is already built &#8220;and we&#8217;ll shortly start our FIA crash test programme&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Coughlan added that the car has already passed the FIA-standard tests &#8220;in private testing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Williams finished the 2011 season in a lowly ninth place.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams aims to have its 2012 car up and running for the first test of the official pre-season, technical director Mike Coughlan has revealed. When Mercedes announced that its next single seater will only be ready for the second test &#8211; taking place two weeks after Jerez in early February &#8211; it triggered speculation other &#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":[5262,5300,5340,585,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643"}],"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=14643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14644,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions\/14644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}