{"id":24041,"date":"2009-11-24T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T17:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24041"},"modified":"2009-11-24T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T17:48:35","slug":"automobile-f1-f1-simulator-run-led-to-hildebrands-sausalito-ca-f1-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=24041","title":{"rendered":"Automobile F1 &#8211; F1 simulator run led to Hildebrand&#8217;s (Sausalito, Ca) F1 chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An introduction to Force India owner Vijay Mallya several years back was the first link in a chain that will culminate in a Formula 1 test next week for newly crowned Firestone Indy Lights Champion J.R. Hildebrand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hildebrand, 21, from Sausalito, Calif., will be joined in the rookies-only test in Jerez, Spain, by Scotsman Paul di Resta, whose cousin, Dario Franchitti, won the 2009 IndyCar Series Championship. The pair will split time in the Mercedes-Benz-powered Force India VJM02<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m ecstatic about &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/f1-simulator-run-led-to-hildebrands-f1-chance\/article\/158420\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An introduction to Force India owner Vijay Mallya several years back was the first link in a chain that will culminate in a Formula 1 test next week for newly crowned Firestone Indy Lights Champion J.R. Hildebrand. Hildebrand, 21, from Sausalito, Calif., will be joined in the rookies-only test in Jerez, Spain, by Scotsman Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24041","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\/24041","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=24041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24047,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions\/24047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}