{"id":5704,"date":"2010-05-25T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2010-05-25T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:16:08","slug":"di-resta-to-sit-out-turkey-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/di-resta-to-sit-out-turkey-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Resta to sit out Turkey practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Force India&#8217;s test and reserve driver Paul di Resta will this week sit out another morning practice session.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Scot has tested during the initial track session at every grand prix event this year with the exception of Bahrain and Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>Di Resta, 24, had to defer to the race drivers in Bahrain because of the altered track configuration, and Monaco &#8220;due to the challenging layout of the circuit&#8221;, amid the need for Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi to maximise their cockpit time.<\/p>\n<p>Force India confirmed on Tuesday that the DTM driver, who raced in Valencia between the Monaco and Turkish grands prix, will sit out Friday&#8217;s session at Istanbul Park because the car will be fitted with &#8220;some new development items&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Silverstone based team is sixth in the constructors&#8217; championship, 35 points behind Renault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a late call from the team but I completely understand their decision as there are some new upgrades coming through this race that really need the drivers&#8217; and the team&#8217;s attention,&#8221; said di Resta.<\/p>\n<p>Team racer Vitantonio Liuzzi last week scotched rumours he is in danger of losing his seat to the highly rated rookie di Resta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not worried about these rumours; speculation is always at the door and all over the papers,&#8221; the Italian told espnf1.com.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Force India&#8217;s test and reserve driver Paul di Resta will this week sit out another morning practice session.<\/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":[5262,290,5261,5340,323,1709],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704"}],"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=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5705,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}