{"id":1413,"date":"2015-05-15T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2015-05-15T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:41:12","slug":"ghirelli-shines-for-zele-at-official-rs01-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"Ghirelli shines for Zele at official RS01 tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ghirelli-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1364 alignleft\" alt=\"Ghirelli-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ghirelli-2-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ghirelli-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ghirelli-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ex-AutoGP champion sets overall best for the Austrian team<!--more--><\/i><\/p>\n<p>At the final official test sessions for the Renault RS01 Trophy in Valencia, Spain, Zele Racing\u2019s Vittorio Ghirelli set the fastest overall time.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old former AutoGP champion, who shares his care with prestige driver Philippe Bourgois, clocked a lap time of 1:28.847 minutes outpacing runner-up Indy Dontje by 0.377 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>In his maiden outing for Zele, the team\u2019s second pro driver, newly-signed Bas Schothorst, came fourth in 1:29.511 and he did on used tires.<\/p>\n<p>Prestige driver Bourgois also fared well, only losing just over two seconds on the pro duo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis final test went really well for us and I believe, we are ready to go. Vittorio showed how fast the RS01 can go and we are all excited to run this programme\u201d, team boss Michael Zele said.<\/p>\n<p>The Renault RS01 Trophy will travel the globe alongside the renowned World Series by Renault 3.5 and the series champion will earn himself a drive with a Nissan Nismo works team in the Japanese Super-GT Series 2016. The best prestige driver will receive a LMP2 cockpit at next year\u2019s 24 Hours of Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p>The RS01 Trophy series opens on May 30 in Spa, Belgium, and closes on October 18 at Jerez, Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-AutoGP champion sets overall best for the Austrian team<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1413\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1402,"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\/1413"}],"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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}