{"id":17115,"date":"2012-11-18T07:52:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T12:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17115"},"modified":"2012-11-18T07:52:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T12:52:34","slug":"wurz-helped-tilke-design-austin-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/wurz-helped-tilke-design-austin-layout\/","title":{"rendered":"Wurz helped Tilke design Austin layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Wurz had a hand in the layout of the new Circuit of the Americas, which has lauded by formula one drivers this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Wurz, now 38 and a sports car driver, contested 69 grands prix between 1997 and 2007, finishing on the podium three times.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian now works as a &#8216;driver coach&#8217; at Williams, serving alongside his friend and countryman Toto Wolff, the British team&#8217;s new shareholder and director.<\/p>\n<p>But Wurz also heads up his own company Firma Test and Technik International, a company he founded in 2006 with his father Franz, a former rallycross driver.<\/p>\n<p>Wurz&#8217;s company reportedly worked alongside regular F1 circuit designer Hermann Tilke on the Austin layout, which features sections copied from famous F1 circuits including Silverstone, Suzuka, Hockenheim and Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Kleine Zeitung newspaper said Wurz advised on Tilke&#8217;s layout in the state-of-the-art McLaren simulator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were a multitude of little things that were decided jointly,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;First you have a layout, then you feed all the data into the simulator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the McLaren simulator I&#8217;ve seen what needs to be changed, working with Hermann to make it more F1-compatible,&#8221; Wurz explained.\u00a0 &#8220;So that overtaking is possible.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Wurz had a hand in the layout of the new Circuit of the Americas, which has lauded by formula one drivers this weekend. Wurz, now 38 and a sports car driver, contested 69 grands prix between 1997 and 2007, finishing on the podium three times. The Austrian now works as a &#8216;driver coach&#8217; at &#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":[894,4131,3011,5262,5340,875,5359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17115"}],"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=17115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17116,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17115\/revisions\/17116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}