{"id":2988,"date":"2010-03-09T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2010-03-09T07:18:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T12:18:48","slug":"drivers-begin-to-arrive-in-sunny-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/drivers-begin-to-arrive-in-sunny-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers begin to arrive in sunny Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg have already touched down in warm and sunny Bahrain ahead of the weekend&#8217;s 2010 season opener.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Alonso&#8217;s Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa is expected early on Tuesday morning, while Rosberg&#8217;s Mercedes teammate Michael Schumacher is set to be accompanied by his wife Corinna on a private jet.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Toro Rosso driver Sebastien Buemi&#8217;s commercial flight is scheduled to touch down on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>FIA president Jean Todt was spotted at Bahrain International Airport on Sunday, while at the Sakhir circuit, the pitlane and paddock are already abuzz with F1 personnel activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My flight leaves on Tuesday,&#8221; confirmed Williams&#8217; German rookie Nico Hulkenberg.\u00a0 &#8220;It is important to have a little time to settle in and get ready with the team for the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The returning Schumacher, 41, warmed up for Bahrain with a weekend on the Genk go-kart track near the Belgian-German border.<\/p>\n<p>Also expected in Bahrain this weekend is the Spanish bank Santander&#8217;s boss Emilio Botin, to witness the competitive debut of the Alonso-Ferrari-Santander sponsorship combination, as well as former Ferrari driver Jean Alesi.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg have already touched down in warm and sunny Bahrain ahead of the weekend&#8217;s 2010 season opener. \u00a0 Spaniard Alonso&#8217;s Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa is expected early on Tuesday morning, while Rosberg&#8217;s Mercedes teammate Michael Schumacher is set to be accompanied by his wife Corinna on a private jet.<\/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":[5315,5262,149,284,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988"}],"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=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}