{"id":3086,"date":"2010-03-12T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2010-03-12T07:13:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:13:30","slug":"fauzy-to-drive-lotus-in-bahrain-practice-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fauzy-to-drive-lotus-in-bahrain-practice-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauzy to drive Lotus in Bahrain practice &#8211; boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Test driver Fairuz Fauzy will get some track time at the wheel of the Lotus T127 this weekend in Bahrain.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be testing,&#8221; said team boss Tony Fernandes on Friday before departing Kuala Lumpur for the Middle East.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Malaysian Fauzy, 27, is the new Lotus team&#8217;s test driver.<\/p>\n<p>Race drivers Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen kicked off running at Sakhir on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Added Fernandes: &#8220;He (Fauzy) will be taking the car in the free practice.\u00a0 He has done an absolutely superb job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said Fauzy will also drive in practice in Australia and Malaysia, the forthcoming rounds of the world championship, and hinted that a race seat might be on the future&#8217;s horizon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is so determined and I think he would be a fantastic role model for all Malaysians.\u00a0 I hope we will be able to make his dream come true soon,&#8221; said Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Test driver Fairuz Fauzy will get some track time at the wheel of the Lotus T127 this weekend in Bahrain. \u00a0 &#8220;He will be testing,&#8221; said team boss Tony Fernandes on Friday before departing Kuala Lumpur for the Middle East.<\/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":[5315,5262,568,823,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086"}],"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=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}