{"id":1995,"date":"2010-02-01T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2010-02-01T06:39:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T11:39:19","slug":"no-rally-ban-for-lotus-kovalainen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-rally-ban-for-lotus-kovalainen\/","title":{"rendered":"No rally ban for Lotus&#8217; Kovalainen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lotus has not banned Heikki Kovalainen from contesting rallies.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After emerging from his restrictive McLaren contract, the 28-year-old Finn hinted he would take advantage by doing a rally this winter.<\/p>\n<p>The Arctic Lapland Rally was touted, but France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo claimed Kovalainen had decided against it because he &#8220;does not have time to prepare seriously&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat, confirming that Kovalainen&#8217;s new Lotus contract does not forbid rally outings, asked the 2008 Hungarian GP winner about his decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would certainly have liked to have been out there, but if you do rallies, even for fun, you still need to do some preparation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would have meant a couple of weeks for the project.\u00a0 At this stage, I preferred to spend the time at the (Lotus) factory,&#8221; Kovalainen explained.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus has not banned Heikki Kovalainen from contesting rallies. \u00a0 After emerging from his restrictive McLaren contract, the 28-year-old Finn hinted he would take advantage by doing a rally this winter. The Arctic Lapland Rally was touted, but France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo claimed Kovalainen had decided against it because he &#8220;does not have time to prepare &#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":[5262,517,306,531],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995"}],"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=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}