{"id":837,"date":"2013-04-06T22:36:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2013-04-06T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T22:43:47","slug":"karthikeyan-unfortunate-bacheta-on-pole-for-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Karthikeyan unfortunate, Bacheta on Pole for Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?attachment_id=835\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-835\" alt=\"WEB Narain Marrakesch 02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Narain-Marrakesch-02-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Narain-Marrakesch-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Narain-Marrakesch-02.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite starting from the front, the first of two races in Marrakech, Morocco, has not worked out as well as expected for Austrian team Zele Racing: Narain Karthikeyan finished sixth, while teammate Luciano Bacheta came eighth.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Narain was dominant in free practice and qualifying, earning himself a spot in the front row. However, problems changing the left front wheel cost him dearly and the Indian could only secure sixth place and vital points for the championship thanks to top lap times in the dying stages of the race. <em>\u201cI had a lot of wheelspin at the start and quickly dropped back. I could catch up, but lost a lot of time in the pits. It\u2019s pretty unfortunate, as I have now missed out on two podium finishes due to technical problems. But I will attack again tomorrow and hope all goes well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?attachment_id=834\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-834\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-834\" alt=\"WEB Narain Marrakesch 01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Narain-Marrakesch-01-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Narain-Marrakesch-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Narain-Marrakesch-01.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luciano Bacheta\u2019s race was entirely different, as the 22-year-old Brit was further down the grid after qualifying. But Bacheta was battling hard, showing some outstanding wheel-to-wheel duels, to finish eighth.<em> \u201cI was far down at the start, so we pitted really early. However, that meant, I had to do the race with really worn-out tires. We managed to get up to 8th, so I will start from Pole tomorrow and am still super motivated, as we are in for a win.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?attachment_id=833\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-833\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-833\" alt=\"WEB Lucy Marrakesch 01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Lucy-Marrakesch-01-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Lucy-Marrakesch-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WEB-Lucy-Marrakesch-01.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Team boss Michael Zele was not impressed with his outfit\u2019s display saying: <em>\u201eWe cannot be content, since Narain could have won the race single-handedly. Instead, he finished sixth, 14 seconds adrift the winner, despite setting a new lap record. His pitstop was a disaster, but these things happen. Luciano started from far down the grid, so P8, and thus Pole Position for tomorrow, is acceptable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Result Race 1 Auto GP Round Two Marrakesh<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Campana (ITA) &#8211; Ibiza Racing<br \/>\n2. De Jong (NED) &#8211; Manor MP Motorsport<br \/>\n3. Sato (JPN) &#8211; Euronova Racing<br \/>\n4. Agostini (ITA) &#8211; Manor MP Motorsport5. Spavone (ITA) &#8211; Super Nova International<br \/>\n6. KARTHIKEYAN (IND) &#8211; ZELE RACING<br \/>\n7.\u00a0 Ghirelli (ITA) &#8211; Super Nova International<br \/>\n8. BACHETA (GBR) &#8211; ZELE RACING<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fastest Lap:<\/strong> KARTHIKEYAN 1:28.450<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite starting from the front, the first of two races in Marrakech, Morocco, has not worked out as well as expected for Austrian team Zele Racing: Narain Karthikeyan finished sixth, while teammate Luciano Bacheta came eighth.<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=837\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835,"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\/837"}],"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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}