{"id":4017,"date":"2010-04-01T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2010-04-01T07:09:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:09:11","slug":"wirth-admits-he-will-pay-for-virgin-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/wirth-admits-he-will-pay-for-virgin-redesign\/","title":{"rendered":"Wirth admits he will pay for Virgin redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Nick Wirth has confirmed reports that his company will foot the bill for the major redesign of Virgin&#8217;s 2010 car.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wirth, 44, is the new British team&#8217;s technical director, engaged through his separate Oxfordshire-based engineering group Wirth Research.<\/p>\n<p>After it emerged that the current VR-01 design will not accommodate enough fuel to reach the end of races, media reports have estimated the cost of the necessary redesign at 1 million pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on Wednesday said Wirth had admitted that his company will pay the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chassis supplier is us &#8212; nothing to do with engine supplier or fuel supplier,&#8221; Wirth is quoted as saying by the Telegraph.\u00a0 &#8220;What that means is that we are fixing it for the team.\u00a0 We are not charging the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s our responsibility to provide cars that can finish a grand prix.\u00a0 It&#8217;s down to us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>An ironic twist to the fuel tank story is the fact that, due to a separate fuel pick-up issue, drivers Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi are having to qualify with too much fuel aboard their VR-01s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got problem after problem,&#8221; Wirth is quoted as saying by the Times.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Wirth has confirmed reports that his company will foot the bill for the major redesign of Virgin&#8217;s 2010 car. \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":[5262,5261,5340,123,119,590],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017"}],"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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}