{"id":2348,"date":"2010-02-11T07:14:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2010-02-11T07:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:14:29","slug":"better-weather-likely-at-jerez-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/better-weather-likely-at-jerez-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Better weather likely at Jerez on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Better weather looks set to dawn at Jerez on Thursday, where near constant rain yesterday marred one of the rare winter test days at the Spanish circuit.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately the weather forecast looks a lot better,&#8221; Renault&#8217;s chief engineer Alan Permane confirmed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is particularly good news for Red Bull and Force India, whose 2010 cars made their debuts at the drizzly venue on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The new Virgin is also testing for the first time at Jerez, and on Wednesday lapped just 5 times in the hands of Timo Glock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t the time to push it and risk crashing.\u00a0 We would have compromised next week&#8217;s test,&#8221; the German is quoted as saying by Italy&#8217;s La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p>But while Thursday is likely to be mainly dry, more rain is forecast for the final two days of the test on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Renault intends to make the most of what could be the only dry day by reshuffling its schedule so that Robert Kubica takes Russian rookie Vitaly Petrov&#8217;s place in the R30 on Thursday, and possibly beyond.<\/p>\n<p>It is also rumoured that if more days are affected by rain, another group test before March&#8217;s Bahrain season opener might be scheduled.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better weather looks set to dawn at Jerez on Thursday, where near constant rain yesterday marred one of the rare winter test days at the Spanish circuit. \u00a0 &#8220;Fortunately the weather forecast looks a lot better,&#8221; Renault&#8217;s chief engineer Alan Permane confirmed.<\/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":[697,5262,290,5312,129,501,5306,359],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348"}],"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=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}