{"id":3858,"date":"2010-03-28T20:28:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T00:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2010-03-28T20:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T00:28:39","slug":"fauzy-to-drive-lotus-in-fridays-sepang-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fauzy-to-drive-lotus-in-fridays-sepang-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauzy to drive Lotus in Friday&#8217;s Sepang practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Despite a couple of false starts, it is expected that Fairuz Fauzy will drive a Lotus T127 during Friday practice at Sepang on Friday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of earlier comments made by team principal Tony Fernandes, it had seemed possible the Malaysian driver would be in action in Bahrain or Australia.<\/p>\n<p>But as was reported late in February, a concrete plan has always been in place to have the Kuala-Lumpur born 27-year-old at the wheel of the Malaysian-backed team&#8217;s green car in front of the local crowd.<\/p>\n<p>To the Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat, the news was confirmed by technical boss Mike Gascoyne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will talk about it after Sunday&#8217;s race (in Australia) with Jarno and Heikki,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Because there are no third cars at grands prix, one of Lotus&#8217; race drivers will need to make way for Fauzy.<\/p>\n<p>Gascoyne said: &#8220;Both (Trulli and Kovalainen) are experienced drivers who do not need to do 40 laps in the first practice on a circuit that is familiar to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Said Fernandes: &#8220;We&#8217;re looking forward to going home, and really looking forward to giving our fans something to shout about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a couple of false starts, it is expected that Fairuz Fauzy will drive a Lotus T127 during Friday practice at Sepang on Friday. \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":[5262,568,5261,5340,912,528,305,5336,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858"}],"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=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}