{"id":4530,"date":"2010-04-17T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2010-04-16T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T02:32:01","slug":"hrt-signs-yamamoto-as-friday-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hrt-signs-yamamoto-as-friday-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"HRT signs Yamamoto as Friday driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">HRT has signed Sakon Yamamoto as a test, reserve and occasional &#8216;Friday&#8217; driver.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It had been expected that team boss Colin Kolles would pay a driver to run during Friday practice sessions to gauge the competitiveness of the F110 car, as well as the pace of Bruno Senna and Karun Chandhok.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Yamamoto, 27, contested 14 grands prix with Super Aguri and Spyker in 2006 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope I will be able to gather useful data whenever possible on Friday for the race drivers,&#8221; he said in a media statement.<\/p>\n<p>Kolles added: &#8220;I am confident that his input into the development of our car will be useful and means another reinforcement of our team as the European season starts in Barcelona.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRT has signed Sakon Yamamoto as a test, reserve and occasional &#8216;Friday&#8217; driver.<\/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":[381,602,5262,5261,5340,842,742,1374,1376,1375],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530"}],"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=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4531,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}