{"id":650978,"date":"2013-04-07T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=96149"},"modified":"2013-04-07T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T13:30:43","slug":"alexander-rossi-in-the-lotus-49-at-cota-road-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650978","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Rossi in the Lotus 49 at COTA &ndash; Road &amp; Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AlexanderRossi.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Rossi\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-96180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you were to ask any professional racing driver if they were afraid of any car, the probability of them saying &#8220;Yes&#8221; would be very small. Alexander Rossi, the reserve driver for the Caterham F1 Team is no exception. At 22-years old he&#8217;s one of the youngest in the sport and looks to have a long, fruitful career ahead of him. However just for shits and giggles Rossi was recently given the opportunity to climb behind the wheel of a machine that was 24 years his senior. The car was Jim Clark&#8217;s 1967 Lotus 49, and while new to Rossi, he wasted no time in flogging it around the new Circuit of the America&#8217;s in Austin, TX. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RoadandTrack?feature=watch\">Road &#038; Track&#8217;s<\/a> video below.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Opzzn9sl1kU\">RoadandTrack.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-96149\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"610\" height=\"361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Opzzn9sl1kU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to ask any professional racing driver if they were afraid of any car, the probability of them saying &#8220;Yes&#8221; would be very small. Alexander Rossi, the reserve driver for the Caterham F1 Team is no exception. At 22-years old he&#8217;s one of the youngest in the sport and looks to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}