{"id":4071,"date":"2010-04-02T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2010-04-02T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:34:07","slug":"fauzy-to-race-with-lotus-in-2010-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fauzy-to-race-with-lotus-in-2010-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauzy to race with Lotus in 2010 &#8211; rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to a murmur sweeping the Sepang media centre during Friday&#8217;s second practice session, Fairuz Fauzy could race a Lotus later in 2010.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After practicing in Heikki Kovalainen&#8217;s green T127 on Friday morning, the 27-year-old Malaysian apparently told a reporter that team boss Tony Fernandes has hinted that he might be given a chance to race at some point this season.<\/p>\n<p>Finn Kovalainen&#8217;s teammate is fellow grand prix winner Jarno Trulli.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, Fernandes said he opted to pay Kovalainen and Trulli this year, rather than collect a couple of cheques from pay-drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to be serious about this sport then you&#8217;ve got to have the best drivers you can afford and you can get,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a short term thing to get a cheque,&#8221; Fernandes added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Red Bull&#8217;s reliability woes continue in Malaysia, with Mark Webber abandoning his RB6 in a gravel trap after experiencing a sudden loss of power during second Friday practice.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a murmur sweeping the Sepang media centre during Friday&#8217;s second practice session, Fairuz Fauzy could race a Lotus later in 2010. \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":[5262,568,5261,5340,517,5367,1219,528,1178,1216,5336,1188,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071"}],"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=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}