{"id":1993,"date":"2010-02-01T06:36:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2010-02-01T06:36:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:36:27","slug":"new-lotus-to-make-track-debut-on-friday-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-lotus-to-make-track-debut-on-friday-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lotus to make track debut on Friday &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">New F1 team Lotus looks set to give its 2010 car a track debut late this week.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UK-based, Malaysian-owned team has announced that the single seater will be launched next Friday at a central London event.<\/p>\n<p>It was believed the car would run for the first time at Silverstone the following day, in the hands of Jarno Trulli, before heading to the third group test at Jerez.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat, having just interviewed Lotus&#8217; Finnish driver Heikki Kovalainen, reports that it will actually be the team&#8217;s Malaysian test driver who gives the car its debut.<\/p>\n<p>Rival new team Virgin will debut the VR-01 during a &#8220;private shakedown&#8221; at Silverstone on Thursday and Friday this week, and the Finnish report suggests that Lotus will also be on track on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Tony Fernandes said earlier this month that Lotus would be &#8220;turning on (the car&#8217;s) engines on the 5th&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Turun Sanomat said Fairuz Fauzy will also drive for one day at each of the subsequent Jerez and Barcelona group tests, leaving just three days apiece for Kovalainen and Trulli.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New F1 team Lotus looks set to give its 2010 car a track debut late this week. \u00a0 The UK-based, Malaysian-owned team has announced that the single seater will be launched next Friday at a central London event. It was believed the car would run for the first time at Silverstone the following day, in &#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":[5262,568,517,394,306,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993"}],"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=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}