{"id":15017,"date":"2012-01-25T06:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15017"},"modified":"2012-01-25T06:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:50:12","slug":"marussia-delays-2012-car-track-debut-until-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/marussia-delays-2012-car-track-debut-until-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Marussia delays 2012 car track debut until March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marussia will sit out the forthcoming first test of the 2012 pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>And it has also emerged that the former Virgin team&#8217;s new single seater will not make an appearance until the third and final test of the winter in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Eason, the London newspaper The Times&#8217; veteran F1 correspondent, said the news is &#8220;worrying&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing its first two seasons dead last, however, the team has gone back to the drawing board with what boss John Booth describes as an &#8220;almost entirely new (car), with very little carry over&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately our programme has slipped and there seems little point in fielding the new car before we can optimise the run plan for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So the plan is to run the 2011 (car) in Barcelona from 21 February and the new (2012 car) MR01 from 1 March at the second Barcelona test,&#8221; the team explained on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will hopefully gain more constructive track time than we might otherwise have achieved had we rushed the new car out for the second test,&#8221; added Booth.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Marussia planned to be at the forthcoming Jerez test with the 2011 car to give rookie Charles Pic some mileage.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marussia will sit out the forthcoming first test of the 2012 pre-season. And it has also emerged that the former Virgin team&#8217;s new single seater will not make an appearance until the third and final test of the winter in Barcelona. Kevin Eason, the London newspaper The Times&#8217; veteran F1 correspondent, said the news is &#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":[5262,5340,2361],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15017"}],"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=15017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15018,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15017\/revisions\/15018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}