{"id":3725,"date":"2010-03-25T07:28:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2010-03-25T07:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:23:43","slug":"di-resta-paddles-with-shark-before-f1-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/di-resta-paddles-with-shark-before-f1-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Resta paddles with shark before F1 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Within two minutes of Paul di Resta&#8217;s first beach visit in Australia, he was within metres of a seven-foot shark.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Paddling in the shallows at St Kilda beach, located near Albert Park, Force India&#8217;s rookie &#8216;Friday&#8217; driver pointed out the shark to his teammate Tonio Liuzzi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was quite big, within about six feet of us,&#8221; the 23-year-old Scot is quoted as saying by The Sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t give you much confidence to go in the water!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shark encounter, with plenty of photographers and reporters in tow, ensured some national news bulletin coverage around Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Now set to experience the piranhas in the F1 paddock, di Resta &#8211; who will be in Adrian Sutil&#8217;s VJM03 on Friday morning &#8211; admitted that he hopes his new role leads to a full-time race seat in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year is about gaining experience on the tracks so if a drive comes up I am in the scenario without thinking of it too much,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within two minutes of Paul di Resta&#8217;s first beach visit in Australia, he was within metres of a seven-foot shark.<\/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":[5339,5262,5261,323],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725"}],"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=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}