{"id":17649,"date":"2013-01-23T07:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T12:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17649"},"modified":"2013-01-23T07:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T12:10:34","slug":"pirelli-set-to-name-kobayashi-2013-tester-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-set-to-name-kobayashi-2013-tester-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli set to name Kobayashi 2013 tester &#8211; reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kamui Kobayashi looks set to spend the 2013 season testing tyres with F1&#8217;s official supplier Pirelli.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Kamui-Kobayashi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Kamui-Kobayashi.JPG\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The Italian marque has invited the media to its Milan headquarters on Wednesday for the launch of the sport&#8217;s 2013 tyres and a press conference &#8220;with Pirelli&#8217;s main motor sport protagonists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The French sources F1i and Eurosport are reporting that Japanese Kobayashi, the former Sauber driver, should be announced as the main Pirelli tester for this year.<\/p>\n<p>An Italian source is reporting the same.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, when 26-year-old Kobayashi was mentioned as a possible test driver for 2013, Pirelli&#8217;s Paul Hembery answered: &#8220;It&#8217;s a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll see what happens with him.\u00a0 I imagine he&#8217;s still trying to get a (race) seat, so we&#8217;ll wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamui Kobayashi looks set to spend the 2013 season testing tyres with F1&#8217;s official supplier Pirelli. The Italian marque has invited the media to its Milan headquarters on Wednesday for the launch of the sport&#8217;s 2013 tyres and a press conference &#8220;with Pirelli&#8217;s main motor sport protagonists&#8221;. The French sources F1i and Eurosport are reporting &#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":[5262,5340,97,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649"}],"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=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17650,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions\/17650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}