{"id":15791,"date":"2012-04-11T07:06:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T11:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15791"},"modified":"2012-04-11T07:06:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T11:06:36","slug":"bianchi-to-begin-friday-duties-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bianchi-to-begin-friday-duties-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Bianchi to begin Friday duties in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jules Bianchi will kick off his season of Friday practice duties this weekend in China.<\/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\/Jules-Bianchi.jpg\" alt=\"Jules-Bianchi\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" \/>Despite remaining under contract to Ferrari&#8217;s development programme, the Frenchman was signed to be reserve driver at Force India this year.<\/p>\n<p>The team said 22-year-old Bianchi will practice during &#8220;a minimum of nine&#8221; Friday sessions this season.<\/p>\n<p>The first will be in Shanghai late this week, according to the French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Bianchi, who will also race in the Renault World Series in 2012, will take over Paul di Resta&#8217;s Mercedes-powered car in the initial free practice session beginning at 10am local on Friday in China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope it (the role) will put me in a strong position to one day move into a race seat,&#8221; Bianchi said in January.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jules Bianchi will kick off his season of Friday practice duties this weekend in China. Despite remaining under contract to Ferrari&#8217;s development programme, the Frenchman was signed to be reserve driver at Force India this year. The team said 22-year-old Bianchi will practice during &#8220;a minimum of nine&#8221; Friday sessions this season. The first will &#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":[1221,5262,93,576,5340,1675],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791"}],"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=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15792,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions\/15792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}