{"id":5034,"date":"2010-05-06T06:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2010-05-06T06:02:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:02:56","slug":"huge-motor-homes-absent-in-barcelona-paddock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/huge-motor-homes-absent-in-barcelona-paddock\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge motor homes absent in Barcelona paddock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The impressive motor homes of the Red Bull, Mercedes and Force India teams are absent in the paddock of the first European grand prix of 2010.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the initial run of overseas or &#8216;flyaway&#8217; races, the Barcelona event is usually the F1 world&#8217;s first annual glimpse of the teams&#8217; imposing temporary paddock buildings.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2010, the Circuit de Catalunya event is followed just one week later by the prestigious Monaco grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Because there is not enough time to dismantle the huge structures and transport them several hundred kilometres across Europe, Red Bull and Mercedes have taken alternate hospitality units to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Barcelona solution is to use its test motor home, while Mercedes will be housed this weekend in one of its DTM buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland&#8217;s Blick newspaper reports that Red Bull&#8217;s huge Energy Station is already being erected in the Monaco harbour.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s &#8216;Brand Centre&#8217; is however standing in the Barcelona paddock, but Force India&#8217;s refurbished three-storey structure will not be seen in Europe until the Turkish grand prix at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the meantime we will use a temporary motor home in Spain and Monaco while the new improved motor home is driven direct to Turkey,&#8221; said team manager Andy Stevenson.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impressive motor homes of the Red Bull, Mercedes and Force India teams are absent in the paddock of the first European grand prix of 2010.<\/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":[1499,1528,5262,5261,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034"}],"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=5034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}