{"id":3876,"date":"2012-09-02T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T14:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2012-09-02T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T14:16:41","slug":"lotus-f1-team-belgian-gp-race-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2012\/09\/02\/lotus-f1-team-belgian-gp-race-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus F1 Team &#8211; Belgian GP &#8211; Race Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lotus-F1-Team-Belgian-GP-Race-Report.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3877\" title=\"Lotus F1 Team - Belgian GP - Race Report\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lotus-F1-Team-Belgian-GP-Race-Report-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lotus-F1-Team-Belgian-GP-Race-Report-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lotus-F1-Team-Belgian-GP-Race-Report-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lotus-F1-Team-Belgian-GP-Race-Report.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Lotus F1 Team still couldn&#8217;t deliver that first win they&#8217;ve been threatening all season at the Belgian GP but were able to claim another podium, keeping them 3rd in the constructors championship.<\/p>\n<p>Romain Grosjean&#8217;s race ended before the first corner &#8211; with the Frenchman cutting across and hitting Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s McLaren as tried to move to the inside line for Turn 1. The contact triggered a chain reaction which vaulted his car across the top of Alonso&#8217;s Ferrari, taking 4 cars out of the race and triggering a safety car.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen had benefited before the race had even begun from Maldonado&#8217;s grid penalty and started 3rd and was lucky not to be involved in the accident occurring behind him, but lacked the pace and strategy to really fight for victory &#8211; battling with Schumacher, Hulkenberg and Vettel during the race on what proved to be the less optimal 2-stop strategy &#8211; and ultimately having to settle for the bottom step of the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.seloc.org\/viewthread.php?tid=345357\">SELOC Chat &#8211; F1 Spa Francorchamps weekend schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus F1 Team still couldn&#8217;t deliver that first win they&#8217;ve been threatening all season at the Belgian GP but were able to claim another podium, keeping them 3rd in the constructors championship. Romain Grosjean&#8217;s race ended before the first corner &#8211; with the Frenchman cutting across and hitting Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s McLaren as tried to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[26,97,480,527,732,790],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotusf1","tag-26","tag-belgian-gp","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-lotus-f1-team","tag-romain-grosjean","tag-spa-francorchamps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}