{"id":5058,"date":"2010-05-06T15:10:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T19:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2010-05-06T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T19:10:04","slug":"glock-eyes-big-improvement-with-revised-virgin-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/glock-eyes-big-improvement-with-revised-virgin-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Glock eyes big improvement with revised Virgin car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With rival Lotus hoping for a more than one second improvement in Barcelona, Virgin&#8217;s Timo Glock believes his similarly heavily-revised VR-01 car will be faster by about seven tenths per lap this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Due to the volcano-induced travel chaos three weeks ago, his teammate Lucas di Grassi&#8217;s car does not feature the major package upgrade in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Glock&#8217;s car has a longer wheelbase, a bigger fuel tank, a fuel system that allows the car to run light on fuel in qualifying, a new front wing, floor and bargeboards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fuel tank is the main one,&#8221; the German told Auto Motor und Sport.\u00a0 &#8220;If it works, it gives us five or six tenths alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glock added that the rest of the package will add a further one or two tenths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal is to beat Lotus,&#8221; he confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rival Lotus hoping for a more than one second improvement in Barcelona, Virgin&#8217;s Timo Glock believes his similarly heavily-revised VR-01 car will be faster by about seven tenths per lap this weekend.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,457,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058"}],"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=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}