{"id":4501,"date":"2010-04-16T07:07:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2010-04-16T07:07:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:07:03","slug":"upright-failure-caused-buemi-crash-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/upright-failure-caused-buemi-crash-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Upright failure caused Buemi crash &#8211; team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">An initial investigation has identified the cause of Sebastian Buemi&#8217;s frightening incident during first practice in China.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Swiss driver speared into the barrier and then the gravel trap after both front suspension assemblies and wheels sheared off under heavy braking.<\/p>\n<p>The Faenza based team is said to have identified the cause as an suspension arm failure on a front-right upright on the STR5.<\/p>\n<p>The SID news agency said the left suspension assembly simultaneously failed because of the loads placed on it due to the original failure.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension pieces were new and also newly designed, so an older design will be fitted to both Buemi and teammate Jaime Alguersuari&#8217;s cars for second practice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it was a material error, or errors in the handling of the material.\u00a0 But we can only investigate it in the factory,&#8221; said team boss Franz Tost.<\/p>\n<p>Buemi was declared unhurt after a brief visit to the circuit medical centre.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initial investigation has identified the cause of Sebastian Buemi&#8217;s frightening incident during first practice in China.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,910,868,1371,1368],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501"}],"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=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}