{"id":20555,"date":"2013-06-29T23:50:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T23:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=20555"},"modified":"2013-06-29T23:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T23:50:22","slug":"day-180-british-grand-prix-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/29\/day-180-british-grand-prix-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 180: British Grand Prix, Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was another day at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Silverstone Circuit\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silverstone_Circuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Silverstone<\/a>. We arrived at the circuit after a tortuous <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Park and ride\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Park_and_ride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">park and ride<\/a> where the bus broke down en route. However, a flick of a couple of switches and the driver was back on his way.<\/p>\n<p>We made our way to Becketts &#8211; a fearsome sequence of corners &#8211; at the top end of the circuit for a couple of sessions then we made our way back to Club for the rest of the day after enjoying it so much yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Two British winners as well to celebrate, Sam Bird in GP2 and Jack Harvey in GP3, along with Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s pole position which went down well with the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Photos below:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/2013\/06\/day-179-british-grand-prix-friday\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/180836695_80_80.jpg?w=1165\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" href=\"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/2013\/06\/day-179-british-grand-prix-friday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 179: British Grand Prix, Friday<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com\/2013\/06\/27\/2013-british-grand-prix-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/180533519_80_801.jpg?w=1165\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" href=\"http:\/\/motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com\/2013\/06\/27\/2013-british-grand-prix-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">2013 British Grand Prix Preview<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/formula-1\/mercedes\/british-grand-prix\/news\/hamilton-unhappy-with-mercedes-balance_91162.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/180942421_80_80.jpg?w=1165\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/formula-1\/mercedes\/british-grand-prix\/news\/hamilton-unhappy-with-mercedes-balance_91162.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton unhappy with Mercedes&#8217; balance at British Grand Prix<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 another day at Silverstone. We arrived at the circuit after a tortuous park and ride where the bus broke down en route. However, a flick of a couple of switches and the driver was back on his way. We made our way to Becketts &#8211; a fearsome sequence of corners &#8211; at the [&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],"tags":[111,115,1570,1776,2163,2298,2629,2678,2726,2727],"class_list":["post-20555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-formula-one","tag-2013-british-grand-prix","tag-2013-formula-one-season","tag-jack-harvey","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-nico-rosberg","tag-park-and-ride","tag-sam-bird","tag-sebastian-vettel","tag-silverstone","tag-silverstone-circuit","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-5lx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555","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=20555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}