{"id":15709,"date":"2012-03-31T07:44:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T11:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15709"},"modified":"2012-03-31T07:44:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T11:44:51","slug":"pirelli-signs-test-driver-alguersuari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-signs-test-driver-alguersuari\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli signs test driver Alguersuari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 tyre supplier Pirelli on Friday announced that Jaime Alguersuari has been signed as a test driver.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Jaime-Alguersuari.jpg\" alt=\"Jaime-Alguersuari\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The former Toro Rosso driver was left without a role for the 2012 season, so he signed on as a co-commentator for British radio as a means of staying in the paddock full-time.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Spaniard will join Pirelli&#8217;s existing test driver Lucas di Grassi, the former Virgin driver, and the pair will also develop tyres for GP2.<\/p>\n<p>Pirelli said Alguersuari will &#8220;bring his knowledge of the most current generation of formula one machinery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He and di Grassi will test Pirelli&#8217;s newly-acquired 2010 Renault car at Jerez, Spa, Monza and Barcelona between May and September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a huge desire to get behind the wheel of a formula one car again and return to competition, so this is a brilliant chance for me,&#8221; said Alguersuari.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 tyre supplier Pirelli on Friday announced that Jaime Alguersuari has been signed as a test driver. The former Toro Rosso driver was left without a role for the 2012 season, so he signed on as a co-commentator for British radio as a means of staying in the paddock full-time. The 22-year-old Spaniard will join &#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":[5262,5340,382,600,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709"}],"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=15709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15711,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709\/revisions\/15711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}