{"id":4505,"date":"2010-04-16T07:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2010-04-16T07:11:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:11:02","slug":"kolles-plays-down-criticisms-of-hrts-dallara-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/kolles-plays-down-criticisms-of-hrts-dallara-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolles plays down criticisms of HRT&#8217;s Dallara car"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Colin Kolles has played down reported criticisms of HRT&#8217;s car designer Dallara, but confirms that the contract with the Italian company has been terminated.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s new technical boss Geoff Willis was the first to criticise the quality of the F110 car, and earlier this week business affairs boss Manfredi Ravetto slammed Dallara&#8217;s contribution as a &#8220;total mess&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is now suggested that the Spanish team will embark on its own development programme for the car, rather than rely any longer on Parma-based Dallara.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These plans (of HRT) have nothing to do with criticisms of Dallara,&#8221; team principal Kolles said in an interview with Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are two different things.\u00a0 The criticisms, after I spoke with the people (involved), were perhaps misinterpreted and misquoted,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is point number one.\u00a0 Point number two is how the team will work in the future.\u00a0 It was clear from the outset that the contract with Dallara is completed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It ended on the date on which we ran our cars.\u00a0 That we might consider continuing with Dallara is only one out of three or four options,&#8221; said Kolles.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Kolles has played down reported criticisms of HRT&#8217;s car designer Dallara, but confirms that the contract with the Italian company has been terminated.<\/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":[602,355,5262,5261,5340,842,1276],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505"}],"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=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4507,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/4507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}