{"id":2352,"date":"2010-02-11T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2010-02-11T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:34:24","slug":"virgin-stop-testing-after-wing-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-stop-testing-after-wing-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin stop testing after wing failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Virgin stopped testing at Jerez on Thursday following a front wing failure.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In better weather conditions at the Spanish circuit, the red flags waved when the wing aboard Timo Glock&#8217;s VR-01 single seater came off.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re missing one or two spare parts which will hopefully arrive this evening, so we won&#8217;t be able to run for the rest of the day,&#8221; said technical director Nick Wirth.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is a major blow for the new British team, following Wednesday&#8217;s rain and the bad weather that is apparently set to return on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In two days of testing, the car is yet to post anywhere near a competitive lap time.<\/p>\n<p>The star of the first half of Thursday&#8217;s dry running was Sebastien Buemi in the new Toro Rosso, followed by Jenson Button&#8217;s McLaren, which has again been wearing some odd aerodynamic sensor appendages.<\/p>\n<p>After a huge device drew some consternation on Wednesday, the team explained that it was &#8220;instrumentation to gauge flow structures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Among the mere spectators on Thursday are Mercedes reserve driver Nick Heidfeld, as well as Felipe Massa who will take over from Fernando Alonso on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rubens Barrichello also arrived in the early afternoon, after his Williams teammate Nico Hulkenberg spent time in the garage having an hydraulic leak fixed.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin stopped testing at Jerez on Thursday following a front wing failure. \u00a0 In better weather conditions at the Spanish circuit, the red flags waved when the wing aboard Timo Glock&#8217;s VR-01 single seater came off.<\/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":[5262,5312,5306,457,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352"}],"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=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}