{"id":2533,"date":"2010-02-19T06:53:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2010-02-19T06:53:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:53:49","slug":"force-india-pleased-with-di-restas-race-driver-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/force-india-pleased-with-di-restas-race-driver-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Force India pleased with di Resta&#8217;s race driver pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Force India is pleased that Paul di Resta&#8217;s presence is putting pressure on the team&#8217;s 2010 race lineup.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scottish reserve driver di Resta, 23, has been signed for this season to drive the VJM03 on most Friday practice days.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The risk of the unique strategy, however, is that it will make Adrian Sutil and Tonio Liuzzi fear for their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Internal competition is good,&#8221; remarked the Silverstone based team&#8217;s new chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will benefit from this situation,&#8221; he told Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>In Jerez&#8217;s rain, di Resta was on Thursday given an unscheduled additional half-day in the car to &#8220;allow the race drivers the best chance of the forecasted better weather&#8221; on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Szafnauer also played down reports that Force India could be dissolved by the UK&#8217;s Companies House due to unfiled financial accounts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a normal process,&#8221; he insisted.\u00a0 &#8220;By the end of the month, the documents will have been submitted to the authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The alarm has been struck for no reason,&#8221; said Szafnauer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team is healthy and our budget is within the scope of the previous year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Force India is pleased that Paul di Resta&#8217;s presence is putting pressure on the team&#8217;s 2010 race lineup. \u00a0 Scottish reserve driver di Resta, 23, has been signed for this season to drive the VJM03 on most Friday practice days.<\/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":[5311,5262,576,293,323,5345,504],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533"}],"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=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}