{"id":18776,"date":"2013-07-13T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18776"},"modified":"2013-07-12T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:51:37","slug":"red-bull-not-ruling-out-mercedes-like-pirelli-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-not-ruling-out-mercedes-like-pirelli-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull not ruling out Mercedes-like Pirelli test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is not ruling out following Mercedes&#8217; lead and conducting a private test with F1 tyre supplier Pirelli.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes and Pirelli were reprimanded by the FIA recently, after news of their &#8216;secret&#8217; 1000km test at Barcelona with a 2013 car took the paddock by surprise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Christian-Horner-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Christian-Horner-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>But F1&#8217;s governing body did not ban that sort of tyre testing altogether, albeit insisting that strict guidelines be followed in future.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari, albeit with a two-year-old car, has also tested with Pirelli in 2013, and so Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said the reigning world champions could be next in line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will see,&#8221; he is quoted by Sporting Life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is something we have to discuss with Pirelli.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Horner said the important thing about individual teams conducting tyre testing with Pirelli in future is that &#8220;It has to be done transparently&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want people sneaking off behind closed doors &#8212; and wearing nondescript helmets,&#8221; he said, alluding to one of the aspects of Mercedes&#8217; test that so riled the paddock.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is not ruling out following Mercedes&#8217; lead and conducting a private test with F1 tyre supplier Pirelli. Mercedes and Pirelli were reprimanded by the FIA recently, after news of their &#8216;secret&#8217; 1000km test at Barcelona with a 2013 car took the paddock by surprise. But F1&#8217;s governing body did not ban that sort &#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":[128,5262,5300,5340,34,4561,1404,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776"}],"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=18776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18777,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions\/18777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}