{"id":3872,"date":"2010-03-29T06:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2010-03-29T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:44:10","slug":"kovalainen-to-sit-out-practice-after-coin-toss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kovalainen-to-sit-out-practice-after-coin-toss\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovalainen to sit out practice after coin toss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The loss of a coin throw means Heikki Kovalainen will sit out Friday morning practice ahead of this weekend&#8217;s Malaysian grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With Lotus&#8217; locally-born test driver Fairuz Fauzy set to drive one of the green T127s on Friday, technical boss Mike Gascoyne proposed a coin toss to decide whether it was Kovalainen or his teammate Jarno Trulli who must give up their car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I picked tails,&#8221; loser Kovalainen, 28, told Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Trulli will be relieved to have won the throw, after missing the start of Sunday&#8217;s Australian GP with a late hydraulics issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll work now to fix that for Malaysia and I&#8217;m looking forward to getting out there and seeing what we can do in Sepang,&#8221; said the 35-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The loss of a coin throw means Heikki Kovalainen will sit out Friday morning practice ahead of this weekend&#8217;s Malaysian grand prix.<\/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":[5262,568,5261,5340,517,394,528,305],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872"}],"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=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}