{"id":1319,"date":"2015-03-01T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T09:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2015-03-01T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T09:35:53","slug":"south-american-duo-testing-for-zele-racing-in-autogp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"South American duo testing for Zele Racing in AutoGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pizza2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1278 alignleft\" alt=\"Pizza2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pizza2-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pizza2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pizza2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pizzonia and Mendez to run Austrian outfit\u2019s cars in official AutoGP test<!--more--><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Zele Racing will open its 2015 AutoGP campaign with the first official tests at the Autodromo Vallelunga, Italy, on March 2\/3.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Colombian youngster Andres Mendez, who has already signed a deal with Zele Racing for the entire season, will be joined by \u201cJungle Boy\u201d Antonio Pizzonia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The ex-Jaguar F1 and BMW Williams ace gave a comeback in AutoGP at Zele finishing on the podium at the 2014 season closer in Estoril. The Brazilian had already won the 2012 AutoGP double header <\/em>in Curitiba.<\/p>\n<p>Following talks in December, he is now back in a Zele car.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s great to have Antonio back on board. He is a great driver with a lot of experience. Since he will only arrive on Monday early morning, it will be shakedown laps for him on Day 1\u201d, team boss Michael Zele said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Whether Pizzonia starts in all races of which will be the Austrian team\u2019s fourth successive season in the series has yet to be worked out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mendez, however, will already be in full gear on Monday, \u201cbecause he needs as much track time in the car as he can get.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old AutoGP rookie is \u201c<em>very excited to finally push this V8 550 HP powered car around the track. I am sure, I can also learn a lot from Antonio.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The 2015 AutoGP season opens with the Morocco event in Marrakesh on April 19, where Zele Racing earned the first of a series of podium finishes last season.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pizzonia and Mendez to run Austrian outfit\u2019s cars in official AutoGP test<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1319\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}