{"id":15498,"date":"2012-03-16T07:15:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15498"},"modified":"2012-03-16T07:15:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T11:15:33","slug":"hrt-cleared-to-race-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hrt-cleared-to-race-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"HRT cleared to race in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HRT has survived a close call in Melbourne, after crucial parts of Pedro de la Rosa&#8217;s chassis did not arrive in time for scrutineering.<\/p>\n<p>The back-of-the-grid Spanish team had to apply to the FIA for an exemption to Thursday&#8217;s scrutineering deadline, because pieces of the suspension for the second car had yet to arrive from Europe.<\/p>\n<p>And even when de la Rosa&#8217;s car was ultimately cleared to enter the Albert Park circuit shortly before first practice, the mechanics were still hard at work &#8216;dressing&#8217; it for action.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately the late start was of little consequence, when the sporadic rain around the Victorian capital made a wet deposit just before practice, ensuring that early action was scarce.<\/p>\n<p>But de la Rosa did not even appear later in the session.<\/p>\n<p>More showers are possible later in the day and also on Saturday, but Sunday&#8217;s season-opening race should be dry.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRT has survived a close call in Melbourne, after crucial parts of Pedro de la Rosa&#8217;s chassis did not arrive in time for scrutineering. The back-of-the-grid Spanish team had to apply to the FIA for an exemption to Thursday&#8217;s scrutineering deadline, because pieces of the suspension for the second car had yet to arrive from &#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":[5262,5300,5340,842,271],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498"}],"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=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15499,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions\/15499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}