{"id":4657,"date":"2010-04-20T06:49:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2010-04-20T06:50:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:50:18","slug":"buemi-asks-toro-rosso-for-new-str5-chassis-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/buemi-asks-toro-rosso-for-new-str5-chassis-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Buemi asks Toro Rosso for new STR5 chassis &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sebastien Buemi has asked his bosses at Toro Rosso if a new STR5 chassis can be built up for him ahead of the forthcoming Spanish grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Swiss&#8217; Ferrari-powered car had a brutal weekend in China, with the front suspension famously shattering on Friday before Vitantonio Liuzzi&#8217;s crashed into him at high speed in the race.<\/p>\n<p>He was also smashed out of the Melbourne race on the first lap by Kamui Kobayashi&#8217;s Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo reports that the actual chassis did not suffer lasting damage in the shunts, but that Buemi has nonetheless asked for a new one for Barcelona and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The report said it is a &#8220;psychological&#8221; move so that Buemi can end his run of bad luck.<\/p>\n<p>He joked to the Swiss newspaper Blick after China: &#8220;First I need to go and see the Pope and then to Lourdes.\u00a0 I need to get better luck in some way!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastien Buemi has asked his bosses at Toro Rosso if a new STR5 chassis can be built up for him ahead of the forthcoming Spanish grand prix.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,261,1385,259,1386],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657"}],"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=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}