{"id":18052,"date":"2013-01-28T23:19:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T22:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=18052"},"modified":"2013-01-28T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T22:19:34","slug":"day-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/28\/day-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 28: A Stick &#038; A Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was difficult. My <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Memory Stick\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memory_Stick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">memory stick<\/a> failed on me this morning. Causing panic and swearing. Thankfully, I have plenty of back ups of my work for school &#8211; however, lots of things are currently lost. I&#8217;m hoping it can be recovered. Time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, today is our house-a-versary &#8211; a year since we moved in to our lovely home. As well as this, I attended a governor&#8217;s meeting and tickets were booked for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Silverstone Circuit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silverstone_Circuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Silverstone<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Formula One\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Formula_One\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Formula One<\/a>, the first 2013\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Automobile\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">car<\/a> was unveiled today. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Team Lotus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Team_Lotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Lotus<\/a> stole a march on its competitors with the new\u00a0E21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18053\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lotus-2013.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18053\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/lotus-2013\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lotus-2013.jpg?fit=583%2C389&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"583,389\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2013 Lotus E21\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;2013 Lotus E21&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lotus-2013.jpg?fit=583%2C389&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18053\" alt=\"2013 Lotus E21\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lotus-2013-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lotus-2013.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lotus-2013.jpg?w=583&amp;ssl=1 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 Lotus E21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2012, Lotus won the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Abu Dhabi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Dhabi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Abu Dhabi<\/a> race with\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kimi_R%C3%A4ikk%C3%B6nen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Kimi Raikkonen<\/a> and this car may consolidate its position amongst the top teams. It&#8217;s always hard to tell from a launch car as they develop so much during winter testing. According to Autosport.com, the &#8220;E21 is visually similar to last year&#8217;s car, but certain areas of it have undergone a wholesale redesign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The E21 will feature the\u00a0passive double DRS\u00a0that the team evaluated last year and the outfit has elected not to run with the &#8216;vanity panel&#8217; that is allowed this year to hide the stepped nose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To me, it appears quite a tidy car, and I hope Kimi Raikkonen and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Romain Grosjean\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romain_Grosjean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Romain Grosjean<\/a> are able to compete to keep the racing lively!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was difficult. My memory stick failed on me this morning. Causing panic and swearing. Thankfully, I have plenty of back ups of my work for school &#8211; however, lots of things are currently lost. I&#8217;m hoping it can be recovered. Time will tell. In other news, today is our house-a-versary &#8211; a year since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,41,33],"tags":[152,176,323,328,1171,1683,1831,1947,2584,2944,3296],"class_list":["post-18052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-formula-one","category-work","tag-152","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-automobile","tag-autosport","tag-formula-one","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-lotus","tag-memory-stick","tag-romain-grosjean","tag-team-lotus","tag-work","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-4Ha","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}