{"id":5313,"date":"2010-05-12T18:18:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2010-05-12T18:18:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T22:18:58","slug":"still-no-new-car-for-lucas-di-grassi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/still-no-new-car-for-lucas-di-grassi\/","title":{"rendered":"Still no new car for Lucas di Grassi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas di Grassi will spend one more race weekend at the wheel of the original Virgin car.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After it was discovered that the fuel tank was not big enough to reach the chequered flag with normal pace, the new British team embarked on a significant redesign that debuted in Timo Glock&#8217;s hands last week in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>But di Grassi had to race in Barcelona with the older car, due to the volcanic ash disruptions in the wake of the recent Chinese grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the ultra-quick turnaround between the Spanish race and Wednesday&#8217;s scrutineering in the Principality means that the 25-year-old is still waiting for the new car.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Virgin said the second new car will be ready for Turkey in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was pleased with my performance in Spain so I&#8217;m optimistic that we can have a good race here,&#8221; said di Grassi.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas di Grassi will spend one more race weekend at the wheel of the original Virgin car.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,600,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313"}],"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=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}