{"id":2727,"date":"2010-02-26T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2010-02-26T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:00:12","slug":"di-grassi-not-frustrated-as-virgin-struggles-into-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/di-grassi-not-frustrated-as-virgin-struggles-into-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Grassi not frustrated as Virgin struggles into F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lucas di Grassi&#8217;s crash on Thursday raised fears that Virgin had experienced another wing failure.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the new British team suffered a front wing failure recently at Jerez, it was feared Brazilian rookie di Grassi&#8217;s crash at Barcelona was caused by a broken rear wing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Speedweek publication said technical director Nick Wirth studied video footage of the incident to ensure that a wing had not fallen off prior to the incident at turn 9.<\/p>\n<p>But investigations showed that the VR-01, already delayed recently with a chronic hydraulic problem, had crashed because of &#8220;experimental control settings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It meant di Grassi did not return to the track on Thursday, but the 25-year-old insists he is not frustrated by Virgin&#8217;s teething problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not what I want, but it&#8217;s what I expected,&#8221; he is quoted as saying by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frustration now would be out of place.\u00a0 On the contrary, I have to motivate the guys in the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I was with an established team, I would have set myself a goal,&#8221; di Grassi explained.\u00a0 &#8220;In my situation I have to grow with the team; to develop myself and the car at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Virgin hopes the VR-01, faster only than the Lotus on Thursday, is repaired so that Timo Glock can begin testing as scheduled on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas di Grassi&#8217;s crash on Thursday raised fears that Virgin had experienced another wing failure. \u00a0 After the new British team suffered a front wing failure recently at Jerez, it was feared Brazilian rookie di Grassi&#8217;s crash at Barcelona was caused by a broken rear wing.<\/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":[5262,600,123,811,359,815],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727"}],"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=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}