{"id":22209,"date":"2014-06-08T08:03:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T12:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22209"},"modified":"2014-06-08T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T12:03:48","slug":"fia-to-look-into-disputed-renault-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-to-look-into-disputed-renault-test\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA to &#8216;look into&#8217; disputed Renault test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA is looking into what happened in Graz, Austria, between the final Bahrain test and the season opening Australian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>A whistleblower last week circulated letters to the governing body and some rival teams about an alleged illegal six-day test on Austrian automotive company AVL&#8217;s &#8216;rolling road&#8217; facility.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull have denied conducting the test, but it is believed sister team Toro Rosso was indeed in Graz, along with Red Bull development driver Antonio Felix da Costa.<\/p>\n<p>Engine supplier Renault&#8217;s Remi Taffin is quoted by APA news agency: &#8220;We just had to work with our partner AVL, because our own facilities were at full capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The French marque argues that the &#8216;test&#8217; was in fact just perfectly legal engine bench testing, amid reports the Toro Rosso car was not fitted with front or rear wings.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, an FIA spokesperson said: &#8220;We will look into the matter carefully and then answer any questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA is looking into what happened in Graz, Austria, between the final Bahrain test and the season opening Australian grand prix. A whistleblower last week circulated letters to the governing body and some rival teams about an alleged illegal six-day test on Austrian automotive company AVL&#8217;s &#8216;rolling road&#8217; facility. Red Bull have denied conducting &#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":[2407,5262,5300,5340,911,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209"}],"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=22209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22210,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209\/revisions\/22210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}