{"id":5184,"date":"2010-05-09T06:37:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2010-05-09T06:37:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:37:18","slug":"slow-teams-to-vote-against-quali-split-whitmarsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/slow-teams-to-vote-against-quali-split-whitmarsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow teams to vote against quali split &#8211; Whitmarsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team bosses meeting in Barcelona is likely to knock on the head the concept of a &#8216;split&#8217; initial qualifying session for Monaco.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some drivers want the split so that cars with vastly different speeds are not tangled up in traffic on the Principality&#8217;s famous twisty curves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I expect teams from the middle of the grid downwards to vote against dividing qualifying,&#8221; said FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh before the meeting on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After a cold and overcast start to the day at the Circuit de Catalunya, the sun is now shining with two hours to go until the race.<\/p>\n<p>Predicted rain should hold off until after the chequered flag.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, occupants of the paddock are relieved to hear that Barcelona airport was reopened on Sunday due to the volcanic ash cloud moving on.<\/p>\n<p>But with next week&#8217;s grand prix to be held in Monaco, Spanish radio said the cloud is now heading to the south of France!<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team bosses meeting in Barcelona is likely to knock on the head the concept of a &#8216;split&#8217; initial qualifying session for Monaco.<\/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":[5314,5326,5262,5261,5340,118,491,57],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184"}],"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=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5185,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions\/5185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}