{"id":3118,"date":"2026-06-17T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:14:04","slug":"excellent-f1rst-pass-for-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/?p=3118","title":{"rendered":"Excellent F1rst pass for Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Smith put in a sparkling performance during his advanced test yesterday and scored top marks in nearly every category.  Ben was very pleased with the result, saying &#8220;my thanks to my Observer for the run this weekend &#8211; it really settled my nerves and gave me a confidence boost.&#8221;   His Observer earlier commented that Ben was certainly capable of a good pass, and was particularly impressed with his commentary and appropriate use of the Polestar technology in his car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben&#8217;s Examiner was equally impressed &#8211; &#8220;This was a safe, legal and systematic demonstration drive today and it was clear that Ben had dedicated extra time and effort to achieve this.   A well deserved F1rst pass.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Ben from all at GAM, our fifth F1rst pass this year so far out of 12 successful tests, and a credit to all the successful Associates and their dedicated Observers..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Smith put in a sparkling performance during his advanced test yesterday and scored top marks in nearly every category. Ben was very pleased with the result, saying &#8220;my thanks to my Observer for the run this weekend &#8211; it&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildford-iam.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}