{"id":4730,"date":"2010-04-22T21:31:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2010-04-22T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:22:21","slug":"force-india-hrt-teams-still-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/force-india-hrt-teams-still-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Force India, HRT teams still in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Most of the Force India and HRT teams are still stranded in Shanghai, it emerged on Thursday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Four days after the chequered flag waved at the end of the Chinese grand prix, it was reported that most teams &#8211; and the crucial F1 freight and cars &#8211; are now arriving back on European soil.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner said the air travel delays due to the famous volcanic ash cloud will have little effect on the team&#8217;s plans for Barcelona, while Lotus&#8217; Mike Gascoyne said planned developments for Spain will be applied &#8220;to both cars&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But a Force India spokeswoman said in Shanghai on Thursday that while the drivers are back in Europe, &#8220;the majority of the team&#8221; is still in China.<\/p>\n<p>With the team owned by the Kingfisher airline magnate Vijay Mallya, she told Reuters that they are hoping for their charter to leave &#8220;at some point tomorrow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Indian rookie Karun Chandhok also revealed that most of the HRT team is still in China, amid reports that hundreds of other F1-related personnel are in a similar situation and face waits for flights that could extend well into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Force India and HRT teams are still stranded in Shanghai, it emerged on Thursday.<\/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":[1221,5262,576,5261,5340,842,742,292],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730"}],"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=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}