{"id":4462,"date":"2010-04-15T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:50:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:50:11","slug":"lola-not-applying-for-2011-f1-team-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lola-not-applying-for-2011-f1-team-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola not applying for 2011 F1 team entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lola on Thursday became another prospective F1 team to rule out applying for the final spot on the 2011 grid.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The British racing car company applied to race this season, and went to some lengths to design a grand prix single seater, but was overlooked by the FIA for the new team places.<\/p>\n<p>Lola said on Thursday, the deadline to express interest in the 2011 team spot, that &#8220;it will not pursue an entry application&#8221; this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Martin Birrane said the originally proposed 2010 budget cap and performance-balancing rules were &#8220;perfect for Lola&#8221;, noting that the regulations are in actuality quite different.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly our well developed 2010 F1 project, which included a significant wind tunnel programme, had to be frozen in June 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The recently announced applications for 2011 has left us with insufficient time to prepare for what would be a quite different programme,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Prodrive also announced on Thursday that it is not bidding to race in F1 next year.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lola on Thursday became another prospective F1 team to rule out applying for the final spot on the 2011 grid.<\/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":[5262,5300,5261,5340,5286,610],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462"}],"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=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4463,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}