{"id":3803,"date":"2010-03-27T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T12:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2010-03-27T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T12:39:35","slug":"bransons-virgin-wont-go-all-the-way-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bransons-virgin-wont-go-all-the-way-headline\/","title":{"rendered":"Branson&#8217;s &#8216;Virgin won&#8217;t go all the way&#8217; &#8211; headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s arrival at the Albert Park circuit on Saturday coincided with an unfortunate headline in Britain&#8217;s The Sun tabloid.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The headline said the British billionaire&#8217;s &#8220;Virgin won&#8217;t go all the way&#8221;; a cheeky reference to the bizarre story about the VR-01 car&#8217;s fuel tank being not big enough to last a full race distance.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said the new team is now the &#8220;laughing stock of F1&#8221;, and that the car&#8217;s redesign will cost Branson a million pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Said a rival team boss: &#8220;It sounds to me as if they missed a decimal point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph broadsheet was less unkind, but nonetheless reflected the amazement in the paddock about how the blunder could have been made by the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The three other Cosworth-supplied teams did not make the same mistake despite the same fuel consumption,&#8221; read the article.<\/p>\n<p>But Virgin chief executive Graeme Lowdon told BBC radio that the problem is a &#8220;supplier issue&#8221;, coinciding with suggestions the fuel tank was supplied by a different company than the rest of the 2010 field.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s arrival at the Albert Park circuit on Saturday coincided with an unfortunate headline in Britain&#8217;s The Sun tabloid. \u00a0<\/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":[5339,805,5262,5261,5340,817,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803"}],"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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}