{"id":4064,"date":"2010-04-02T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2010-04-02T08:26:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:26:29","slug":"friday-news-briefs-from-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/friday-news-briefs-from-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday news briefs from Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lotus&#8217; technical boss Mike Gascoyne was presented with a cake at the Sepang circuit on Friday, as he is celebrating his 47th birthday on the initial day of practice for the Malaysian grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jenson Button was drenched by the downpour late on Thursday afternoon at Sepang, as he was doing his circuit walk &#8212; without an umbrella!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Toro Rosso marked April Fool&#8217;s Day by issuing a press release about the conversion of its redundant fuel rigs into giant ice-cream dispensers.\u00a0 Nico Hulkenberg, meanwhile, posted a story on his official website about changing his name for marketing reasons to &#8216;Nico Hulker&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>HRT is running a revised fuel tank system in Malaysia this weekend.\u00a0 &#8220;It prevents the movement of the fuel when accelerating and especially under braking,&#8221; Bruno Senna told Brazil&#8217;s Globo.\u00a0 &#8220;In Bahrain and Australia, it was like having a 150 kilo fat man dancing on the car at the start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Reserve driver Nick Heidfeld has not had any laps in Mercedes&#8217; current F1 car, but he did get some time this week at the wheel of the marque&#8217;s famous 1954 W196R during a street demonstration in Kuala Lumpur.\u00a0 Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper said the silver car is valued at EUR26 million.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus&#8217; technical boss Mike Gascoyne was presented with a cake at the Sepang circuit on Friday, as he is celebrating his 47th birthday on the initial day of practice for the Malaysian grand prix. \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":[5262,5261,5340,842,153,5367,528,1178,305,98,448,1216,5336,1188,1193,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064"}],"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=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}