{"id":4728,"date":"2010-04-22T21:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2010-04-22T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:19:29","slug":"f1-back-on-track-as-cars-returned-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-back-on-track-as-cars-returned-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 back on track as cars returned to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Christian Horner on Thursday said delays caused by the Icelandic volcano will not disturb preparations for next month&#8217;s Spanish grand prix.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the sport&#8217;s freight &#8211; and all the cars &#8211; stranded in China while FOM&#8217;s 747s were grounded in Europe, it was feared that teams&#8217; car developments would not be ready for the next race in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull boss Horner said before departing Shanghai with his travelling companion Mark Webber that an F-duct should be on the RB6 in Spain &#8220;providing we make it back to Europe&#8221; soon.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s Martin Whitmarsh was also worried about the delay, explaining that if it (the delay) is a week or so &#8230; it will become an issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We reported earlier on Thursday that the FOM freight has landed in Bilbao, and Horner confirmed that the team&#8217;s trucks are due to arrive in Milton-Keynes &#8220;today&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thankfully, the way the calendar is with the extra week between the Chinese and Spanish grands prix, it (the delay) has a very limited impact,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>Horner also said the bulk of the race team is also due back in the UK on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner on Thursday said delays caused by the Icelandic volcano will not disturb preparations for next month&#8217;s 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":[128,5262,317,5261,5340,491,129,1385],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728"}],"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=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}