{"id":4932,"date":"2010-05-03T18:49:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T22:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2010-05-03T18:49:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T22:49:03","slug":"virgin-confirms-only-one-modified-car-for-glock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/virgin-confirms-only-one-modified-car-for-glock\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin confirms only one modified car for Glock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin on Monday confirmed reports that the Icelandic volcano spoiled the new team&#8217;s preparations for the Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We reported two weeks ago that because team personnel were stranded in Shanghai, the teams plans to debut two heavily modified cars in Barcelona this weekend might be affected.<\/p>\n<p>With FIA clearance, Virgin has been busily designing a new chassis to accommodate a fuel tank big enough to take its cars to the end of races.<\/p>\n<p>Because the sport&#8217;s freight was held up for several days in China, the new British team only had a single VR-01 monocoque to work on at its UK factory.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, Virgin said it would have needed the &#8220;three full weeks of manufacture, homologation and race preparation&#8221; to get two modified cars up and running for both Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a consequence, Virgin Racing will debut only one revised chassis in the Spanish grand prix this weekend, which Timo Glock will put through its paces,&#8221; read the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Glock commented: &#8220;I have done some work in the simulator in preparation for this race and we have a good idea of what to expect from the modified chassis, so I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how we shape up when we hit the track in Barcelona this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Technical director Nick Wirth admitted that running the two fundamentally different specifications of cars in Spain &#8220;will certainly challenge the team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin on Monday confirmed reports that the Icelandic volcano spoiled the new team&#8217;s preparations for the 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":[5314,5262,5300,5261,5340,123,1385,457,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932"}],"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=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}