{"id":2956,"date":"2010-03-08T06:37:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2010-03-08T06:19:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:19:46","slug":"established-teams-want-virgin-to-fail-wirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/established-teams-want-virgin-to-fail-wirth\/","title":{"rendered":"Established teams want Virgin to fail &#8211; Wirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nick Wirth is not surprised that some of F1&#8217;s establishment are opposed to the arrival of small new teams in formula one.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the new British entrant Virgin Racing, its VR-01 single seater was designed without the aid of a wind tunnel but instead with only the sophisticated computer technology CFD.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ferrari and other established teams were staunchly opposed to moves last year to install a EUR45m budget cap, but technical director Wirth and sponsor Sir Richard Branson have confirmed that Virgin&#8217;s budget comes in beneath that figure.<\/p>\n<p>It means that should Virgin be able to catch up with its bigger spending rivals, the use of expensive wind tunnels and other research and development methods would be rendered worthless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a lot of the establishment teams will want us to fall flat on our faces,&#8221; Wirth is quoted as saying by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>After Ferrari&#8217;s recent attack on the new teams, Branson hit back by describing the &#8216;Horse Whisperer&#8217; column as &#8220;sad&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ferrari already won the battle to make sure that new teams are shackled,&#8221; said the British billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the one thing the Virgin team will prove is that you can have a really good racing team, running very fast, within a very tight budget,&#8221; he added, albeit acknowledging that it will take two years to catch up.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Wirth is not surprised that some of F1&#8217;s establishment are opposed to the arrival of small new teams in formula one. \u00a0 In the case of the new British entrant Virgin Racing, its VR-01 single seater was designed without the aid of a wind tunnel but instead with only the sophisticated computer technology CFD.<\/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":[5262,123,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956"}],"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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}