{"id":16920,"date":"2012-10-25T06:59:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T10:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16920"},"modified":"2012-10-25T06:59:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T10:59:11","slug":"wolff-wanted-f1-test-to-prove-de-villotas-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/wolff-wanted-f1-test-to-prove-de-villotas-abilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolff wanted F1 test to prove de Villota&#8217;s abilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susie Wolff has revealed she carried a heavy burden when she recently made her debut at the wheel of a formula one car.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217; 29-year-old Scottish development driver made international headlines when she tested at Silverstone recently.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the media attention was simply due to her gender, but Wolff&#8217;s appearance took on an even greater significance in light of the serious injuries sustained by fellow female test driver Maria de Villota earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the publicity that surrounded Maria&#8217;s accident, there&#8217;s no doubt I felt an extra need to go out there, do a good job, and show her accident was a freak, one-off and it shouldn&#8217;t generalise women in motor sport,&#8221; Wolff told the Herald Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was very important for me to do it for both of us and show everybody that women can drive F1 cars successfully.\u00a0 And I think I did,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susie Wolff has revealed she carried a heavy burden when she recently made her debut at the wheel of a formula one car. Williams&#8217; 29-year-old Scottish development driver made international headlines when she tested at Silverstone recently. Some of the media attention was simply due to her gender, but Wolff&#8217;s appearance took on an even &#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":[5262,5340,535,3701],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920"}],"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=16920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16921,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions\/16921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}