{"id":3319,"date":"2010-03-16T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2010-03-16T07:20:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:20:49","slug":"di-resta-to-debut-friday-role-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/di-resta-to-debut-friday-role-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Resta to debut Friday role in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Paul di Resta will kick off his season as Force India&#8217;s Friday driver in Melbourne late next week.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish rookie has been signed not only as the Silverstone based team&#8217;s full time reserve driver, he will also take over one of the race driver&#8217;s cockpits for the 90 minute Friday sessions at most grands prix this year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But for the season opener last weekend, the team elected to keep Adrian Sutil and Tonio Liuzzi at the wheel of the two VJM03s due to the change of layout.<\/p>\n<p>23-year-old di Resta, however, still attended the Bahrain event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been new,&#8221; said the DTM driver.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve only ever come to races as a spectator and not been involved with the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was involved in a lot of team meetings, watching how the formula one environment works and watching how the team operates on a race weekend and also taking part in as much as possible to try and build up a relationship with the team for the future,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that if Sutil moves aside for di Resta in Friday&#8217;s morning session in Australia, it will then be Liuzzi&#8217;s turn to give up his cockpit a week later in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul di Resta will kick off his season as Force India&#8217;s Friday driver in Melbourne late next week. \u00a0 The Scottish rookie has been signed not only as the Silverstone based team&#8217;s full time reserve driver, he will also take over one of the race driver&#8217;s cockpits for the 90 minute Friday sessions at most &#8230;<\/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":[5262,576,323],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319"}],"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=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}