{"id":2146,"date":"2010-02-05T06:04:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T11:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2010-02-05T06:04:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T11:04:46","slug":"virgin-force-india-make-silverstone-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-force-india-make-silverstone-debuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin, Force India, make Silverstone debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Virgin on Thursday became the first of F1&#8217;s four new teams to get a car up and running.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the hands of Timo Glock, the newly launched VR-01 began a two-day shakedown on bitterly cold Silverstone&#8217;s shorter Stowe circuit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The team said the German driver completed a &#8220;few exploratory laps&#8221;, and a photo showed the new black and red car fitted with rain tyres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The programme really gets underway tomorrow (Friday) with a full day of on-track evaluation for both Timo and Lucas (di Grassi),&#8221; said technical director Nick Wirth.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Virgin said the VR-01 passed the rear impact structure crash test, meaning it is now cleared to race in formula one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to have sailed through the sign-off of the VR-01&#8217;s structural integrity in accordance with the FIA&#8217;s crash testing requirements,&#8221; said Wirth.<\/p>\n<p>It is also believed that Force India&#8217;s new VJM03 made its debut outing at Silverstone on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin on Thursday became the first of F1&#8217;s four new teams to get a car up and running. \u00a0 In the hands of Timo Glock, the newly launched VR-01 began a two-day shakedown on bitterly cold Silverstone&#8217;s shorter Stowe circuit.<\/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":[5262,576,600,5327,457,119,504,548],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"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=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}