{"id":21019,"date":"2014-02-18T07:04:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21019"},"modified":"2014-02-18T07:04:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:04:41","slug":"williams-to-reveal-martini-livery-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-to-reveal-martini-livery-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams to reveal Martini livery in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams will launch its new Martini livery in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, with the iconic Italian drinks brand set to return to formula one in 2014, it was believed the once-great British team would only officially unveil its new title sponsor and much-anticipated Martini livery ahead of the season opener in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>But, actually, Williams &#8211; having tested its new Mercedes-powered FW36 in all-blue colours so far &#8211; said only that it would launch its race livery in time &#8220;for&#8221; Australia, not necessarily &#8220;in&#8221; Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport reports that the official wraps will come off the new partnership &#8220;during the second week of testing in Bahrain&#8221;, set to take place in the island Kingdom late next week.<\/p>\n<p>The end of pre-season running in Bahrain will then start a mere two-week countdown before the red lights go out on the Melbourne grid.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondent Tobias Gruner said the &#8216;Williams Martini Racing&#8217; 2014 livery will include the iconic white, blue and red Martini stripe, made famous by the brand&#8217;s involvement over decades in F1, Le Mans and rally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img1.auto-motor-und-sport.de\/Martini-Racing-Look-Retro-F1-fotoshowBigImage-8792576f-755494.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams will launch its new Martini livery in Bahrain. Earlier, with the iconic Italian drinks brand set to return to formula one in 2014, it was believed the once-great British team would only officially unveil its new title sponsor and much-anticipated Martini livery ahead of the season opener in Australia. But, actually, Williams &#8211; having &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,595,4815,4816],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019"}],"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=21019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21020,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019\/revisions\/21020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}