{"id":867,"date":"2010-03-12T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2010-03-12T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:58:08","slug":"lotus-returns-to-f1-at-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/lotus-returns-to-f1-at-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus returns to F1 at Bahrain Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/AF5D3744.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/AF5D3744-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Lotus F1 T127 Bahrain Grand Prix 2010\" title=\"Lotus F1 T127 Bahrain Grand Prix 2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-868\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday at the Bahrain Grand Prix marked an historic day for Lotus Racing, exactly six months to the day since the team&#8217;s entry into the 2010 Formula One\u2122 World Championship was confirmed. Jarno Trulli was first car on track as the pit lane lights turned green, followed closely by Heikki Kovalainen as the team saw their incredible efforts since September 12th 2009 come to fruition in the desert heat. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/AF5D3964.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/AF5D3964-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Lotus F1 T127 Bahrain practice\" title=\"Lotus F1 T127 Bahrain practice\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-869\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The morning session saw the team complete 36 laps in total, with both Heikki (21 laps) and Jarno (15 laps) completing their planned programs and stepping out of their respective cars satisfied with their morning\u2019s work. As track temperatures climbed to nearly 50\u00b0 after lunch they both returned to work, Jarno notching up another 14 laps and Heikki 23 more and testing aero upgrades that had been fitted over the lunch break. Heikki\u2019s best time of the afternoon session was 2.00.873 and Jarno 2.00.990.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Technical Officer Mike Gascoyne gave his thoughts on the team\u2019s first outing of the race season, saying \u201cA good day for the team after a very long night preparing the cars for today. Everyone worked very hard and it was satisfying to see us first out on track and then put in a solid performance throughout the day. We tried an aero upgrade this afternoon and we\u2019ll look at the results of that in this afternoon\u2019s debrief, but now we\u2019re looking forward to putting in another professional performance tomorrow in qualifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts now turn to tomorrow\u2019s qualifying session and the forthcoming race, with Team Principal Tony Fernandes arriving in Bahrain to add his support to the Lotus Racing team\u2019s efforts on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday at the Bahrain Grand Prix marked an historic day for Lotus Racing, exactly six months to the day since the team&#8217;s entry into the 2010 Formula One\u2122 World Championship was confirmed. Jarno Trulli was first car on track as the pit lane lights turned green, followed closely by Heikki Kovalainen as the team saw &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/12\/lotus-returns-to-f1-at-bahrain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lotus returns to F1 at Bahrain Practice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,12,1],"tags":[32,75,200,213,333,334,339,366,420],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqLPi-dZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}