{"id":3675,"date":"2010-03-24T06:57:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T10:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2010-03-24T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T10:50:44","slug":"friday-role-not-yet-certain-for-lotus-fauzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/friday-role-not-yet-certain-for-lotus-fauzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday role not yet certain for Lotus&#8217; Fauzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It is still yet to be confirmed that Fairuz Fauzy will be at the wheel of a Lotus on Friday morning practice for next week&#8217;s Malaysian grand prix, or in Melbourne later this week.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Tony Fernandes said before the 2010 season opener two weeks ago that the Malaysian test driver will be in action in Bahrain practice.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But the 27-year-old did not appear in the green Cosworth-powered car, perhaps so that racers Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli could concentrate on learning the new track layout.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes said earlier this month that Fauzy will also drive in Melbourne and then a week later at Sepang.<\/p>\n<p>A Lotus spokesman did not return an email requesting confirmation of the Malaysian-backed team&#8217;s immediate plans for Fauzy.<\/p>\n<p>But a report in Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat, a publication with sources close to Lotus driver Kovalainen, said it is &#8220;probable&#8221; that Fauzy will be in action in Malaysia next Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know anything and I have not asked about it,&#8221; said Kovalainen, explaining that the decision would not overly disrupt either his of teammate Trulli&#8217;s race weekend preparations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it is important to the team to give him some kilometres, it should definitely be done,&#8221; he continued.\u00a0 &#8220;This is a Malaysian team and Fauzy is a Malaysian driver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is still yet to be confirmed that Fairuz Fauzy will be at the wheel of a Lotus on Friday morning practice for next week&#8217;s Malaysian grand prix, or in Melbourne later this week. \u00a0 Team boss Tony Fernandes said before the 2010 season opener two weeks ago that the Malaysian test driver will be &#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":[5262,568,5261,912,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675"}],"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=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}