{"id":1705,"date":"2010-01-22T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2010-01-22T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:47:20","slug":"virgin-to-debut-2010-car-at-silverstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-to-debut-2010-car-at-silverstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin to debut 2010 car at Silverstone"},"content":{"rendered":"
Virgin will run its 2010 car for the first time at Silverstone on 4 February, German driver Timo Glock revealed on Friday.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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He said the car, which will reportedly sport a mainly black livery for the British team’s debut this season, is to run at the British GP circuit over two days.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the F1 world will have just completed the opening three day group test of the pre-season at Valencia.<\/p>\n

Glock said that after the Silverstone debut, Virgin will travel to the second group test of the winter at Jerez.<\/p>\n

“We thought about going (to Valencia) but then we opted for Silverstone,” he said in an interview with Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n

“As a new team we can perform a functional test outside of the official dates.\u00a0 Silverstone is at our front door.\u00a0 If something goes wrong at Valencia, we could not react as quickly,” Glock added.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old said he thinks some of Virgin’s rivals “may be a little surprised that, as a new team, we have been quite aggressive” with the 2010 car.<\/p>\n

Glock, who drove for the departed Toyota in 2009, also said he elected to go to Virgin in 2010 despite having “a few” other options available to him.<\/p>\n

“With Renault it was not exactly clear what their future will look like,” he said.\u00a0 “Even with Sauber, everything was open.<\/p>\n

“We often talked, but they could not tell me any details.\u00a0 I had contact with some other top teams but it was very vague.\u00a0 I wanted to make my decision and I liked the Virgin project very much,” said the veteran of 37 grands prix.<\/p>\n

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Virgin will run its 2010 car for the first time at Silverstone on 4 February, German driver Timo Glock revealed on Friday. \u00a0 He said the car, which will reportedly sport a mainly black livery for the British team’s debut this season, is to run at the British GP circuit over two days. The bulk …<\/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":[53,3],"tags":[5262,5327,457,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}