{"id":970,"date":"2010-03-28T01:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T09:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2010-03-28T01:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T09:11:50","slug":"lotus-racing-australian-grand-prix-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/28\/lotus-racing-australian-grand-prix-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Racing Australian Grand Prix Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mixed day for Lotus Racing at the Melbourne Grand Prix saw Heikki Kovalainen finish the race in 13th place, once again ahead of the other new teams, but Jarno Trulli failed to make the start due to a hydraulics issue on the grid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/25349_414905523464_292309963464_5048392_461509_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/25349_414905523464_292309963464_5048392_461509_n-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"25349_414905523464_292309963464_5048392_461509_n\" title=\"25349_414905523464_292309963464_5048392_461509_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-973\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?tag=heikki-kovalainen\">Heikki Kovalainen<\/a> (Lotus Cosworth T127-01)<\/strong>: \u201cI enjoyed it today, I had good fun out there. Our target was to finish the race and from the start we were quite comfortably ahead of the new teams. When Glock dropped I just focused on keeping up a decent rhythm, not making any mistakes and bringing the car home. It\u2019s difficult to say whether a different strategy would have worked better &#8211; if we\u2019d stopped once more and put a fresh set of tyres on, that might have been better way to go, but our target was to finish the race and we achieved that again. Now we go to Malaysia with a good feeling and we\u2019re all looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?tag=jarno-trulli\">Jarno Trulli<\/a> (Lotus Cosworth T127-03)<\/strong>: \u201cUnfortunately we couldn\u2019t start the race today because we had a hydraulic failure on the grid and, despite the team\u2019s best efforts, we couldn\u2019t fix it in time to make the race. We\u2019ll work now to fix that for Malaysia and I\u2019m looking forward to getting out there and seeing what we can do in Sepang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?tag=mike-gascoyne\">Mike Gascoyne<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cObviously a very disappointing start. Jarno had a hydraulic power pack fail on the grid, not something we\u2019ve seen before and we couldn\u2019t get it changed in time. Balancing that was another strong race from Heikki who did really well staying out on the option tyre. He made a good start but lost a few places after the accident on the opening lap, but he did a great job to get the car home, keeping us tenth in the championship. And congratulations to Karun Chandhok for getting a finish!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?tag=tony-fernandes\">Tony Fernandes<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cI guess we\u2019ve got to have had some bad luck at some point and unfortunately it was today. I\u2019m disappointed for Jarno, but Heikki did us proud &#8211; three places away from a point, and he was keeping pace with most of the other cars throughout the race. Maybe it would have been nice if three other cars had gone out so we could get a point, but, joking aside, it is good that at this stage of the season we\u2019re already thinking about points. We\u2019re in a nice position for Malaysia. We\u2019re looking forward to going home, and really looking forward to giving our fans something to shout about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mixed day for Lotus Racing at the Melbourne Grand Prix saw Heikki Kovalainen finish the race in 13th place, once again ahead of the other new teams, but Jarno Trulli failed to make the start due to a hydraulics issue on the grid. Heikki Kovalainen (Lotus Cosworth T127-01): \u201cI enjoyed it today, I had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/28\/lotus-racing-australian-grand-prix-wrap-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lotus Racing Australian Grand Prix Wrap-Up&#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":[3,1],"tags":[32,251,284,334,339,366,420,542],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqLPi-fE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}