{"id":2799,"date":"2019-01-09T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intereuropolcompetition.eu\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2019-01-11T04:06:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T03:06:58","slug":"defending-the-title-in-the-thai-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/defending-the-title-in-the-thai-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending the title in the Thai heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Inter Europol Competition team is leading the Asian Le Mans series after two races. Kuba Smiechowski and Martin Hippe will defend this position in temperatures around 30C, this coming Saturday (12 January) at the circuit of Buriram in Thailand. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The race will start on the second Saturday of the year at a little before midday. On this day it is the Thai Children\u2019s Day or known in Thailand as Wan Dek. There is a Thai saying that states, \u201cChildren are the future of the nation, if the children are intelligent, the country will prosperous.\u201d\u00a0Thai people celebrate Children\u2019s Day by taking their children out to have fun.\u00a0So the team is looking forward to see many children in the pitlane asking for signatures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Hippe: \u201c<\/strong>I am really looking forward to the first race in 2019. For me it is unusually early in the year. So far we had a very good Asian season with a win and 2<sup>nd<\/sup>place. Now we have to hold on to this. I hope we can take another step this weekend to achieve our target and win first another race and hence the series. But it will not be easy with the very high temperatures and the high level of competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kuba Smiechowski:<\/strong>\u201cI do like this circuit. It\u2019s not easy but challenging and interesting. The heat does not really bother me in the car\u2026. yet. We tested these last two days and it was manageable. We\u2019ll see during the race. But if I suffer, everybody will suffer, unless you are used to these temperatures. So it is the same for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Programme:<\/p>\n<p><u>Thursday 10 January 2019 <\/u><\/p>\n<p>14.00 \u2013 16.00\u00a0 Private practice<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Friday 11 January 2019 <\/u><\/p>\n<p>08.40 \u2013 10.10\u00a0 Free practice 1<\/p>\n<p>12.30 \u2013 14.00 Free practice 2<\/p>\n<p>17.00 \u2013 17.15\u00a0 Qualifying<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Saturday 12 January 2019 <\/u><\/p>\n<p>11.45 \u2013 15.45\u00a0 Race<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inter Europol Competition team is leading the Asian Le Mans series after two races. Kuba Smiechowski and Martin Hippe will defend this position in temperatures around 30C, this coming Saturday (12 January) at the circuit of Buriram in Thailand. &nbsp; The race will start on the second Saturday of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Inter_Europol_AsLMS_Fuji_2018-0026-e1553518095992.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.intereuropolcompetition.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}