{"id":2299,"date":"2010-02-10T06:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T11:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2010-02-10T06:37:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T11:37:36","slug":"green-lotus-makes-silverstone-track-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/green-lotus-makes-silverstone-track-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Lotus makes Silverstone track debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">New formula one team Lotus gave its predominantly green 2010 car its debut track outing on Tuesday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During its brief shakedown test on Silverstone&#8217;s short Stowe circuit in the hands of Malaysian test driver Fairuz Fauzy, the car was secretly photographed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As expected, it features a livery that harks back to the famous marque&#8217;s iconic dark green and gold past.<\/p>\n<p>Also notable are the sponsor logos of Proton, Malaysian tourism, the Tune Group and Naza Corporation, but not team boss Tony Fernandes&#8217; airline AirAsia.<\/p>\n<p>Team chief executive Riad Asmat indicated to the Star newspaper that more sponsors could be unveiled at Friday&#8217;s official launch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can see from the livery of the car who will be supporting us.\u00a0 It will be a mix of Malaysian and international sponsors,&#8221; he told the Malaysian publication.<\/p>\n<p>Technical boss Mike Gascoyne told BBC Sport that the car&#8217;s debut revealed &#8220;no major issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Stowe circuit is not much bigger than a go-kart track and on a cold February afternoon when it&#8217;s snowing intermittently you are never going to learn much about the handling of the car,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we got a good number of laps on it and we did all the systems checks so we can run in anger (next week) in Jerez.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asmat again denied rumours that, like USF1 and Campos, Lotus is also struggling to be ready for the Bahrain season opener next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be there on the grid in Bahrain,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;There is no question about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New formula one team Lotus gave its predominantly green 2010 car its debut track outing on Tuesday. \u00a0 During its brief shakedown test on Silverstone&#8217;s short Stowe circuit in the hands of Malaysian test driver Fairuz Fauzy, the car was secretly photographed.<\/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":[5262,568,306,305,664,663,635],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299"}],"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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}