{"id":15446,"date":"2012-03-09T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15446"},"modified":"2012-03-09T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T12:10:16","slug":"new-marussia-car-good-so-far-glock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-marussia-car-good-so-far-glock\/","title":{"rendered":"New Marussia car &#8216;good&#8217; so far &#8211; Glock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a difficult winter for the Marussia team, Timo Glock is in a positive mood as he travels to Australia for the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>The former Virgin squad struggled to get its new car through the FIA&#8217;s mandatory crash tests, which according to new rules meant the MR01 was grounded throughout the official pre-season period.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Russian website F1News quotes technical consultant Pat Symonds as saying the &#8220;last two months were the most difficult of my 20 years in formula one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a testing loophole allowing some running on demonstration Pirelli tyres, the Cosworth-powered car finally made its debut over two days of &#8216;promotional filming&#8217; early this week at Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The basis is definitely good; the first test miles were really good,&#8221; German Glock is quoted by the German-language Speed Week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The car did exactly what we expected from it.\u00a0 The data we recorded corresponded exactly to what we had calculated previously,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Glock will travel to Australia on Friday, with his 30th birthday set to coincide exactly with the start of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>Symonds added: &#8220;There is still much to be done, but it is a long term project and so I hope that we move forward step by step.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a difficult winter for the Marussia team, Timo Glock is in a positive mood as he travels to Australia for the 2012 season. The former Virgin squad struggled to get its new car through the FIA&#8217;s mandatory crash tests, which according to new rules meant the MR01 was grounded throughout the official pre-season period. &#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":[5262,5300,5340,3374,457],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446"}],"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=15446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15447,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions\/15447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}