{"id":13970,"date":"2009-06-06T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13970"},"modified":"2009-06-07T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T00:53:23","slug":"automobile-f1-mclarens-kovalainen-leads-f1-practice-for-turkish-gp-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13970","title":{"rendered":"Automobile F1 &#8211; McLaren&#8217;s Kovalainen leads F1 practice for Turkish GP on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">McLaren&#8217;s Heikki Kovalainen was fastest in practice Friday for the Turkish Grand Prix, while Brawn GP&#8217;s uncharacteristic lack of pace could give its rivals a strong chance of putting the brakes on the leader&#8217;s dominant start.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Finnish driver set a fastest lap of one minute 28.841 seconds across both practice sessions to edge Renault&#8217;s Fernando Alonso by 0.006 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Williams driver Nico Rosberg was the only other driver to finish under the 1:29 mark, while BMW Sauber&#8217;s Robert Kubica and Kazuki Nakajima of Williams rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Formula One leader Jenson Button of Brawn GP had a best lap of 1:29.430 &#8211; more than half a second off Kovalainen&#8217;s pace&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5iOlsyCW8ILHGIHu58YiP67wKpNpw\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren&#8217;s Heikki Kovalainen was fastest in practice Friday for the Turkish Grand Prix, while Brawn GP&#8217;s uncharacteristic lack of pace could give its rivals a strong chance of putting the brakes on the leader&#8217;s dominant start. The Finnish driver set a fastest lap of one minute 28.841 seconds across both practice sessions to edge Renault&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13973,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions\/13973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}