{"id":11261,"date":"2011-02-28T06:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T11:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11261"},"modified":"2011-02-28T06:28:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T11:28:55","slug":"williams-radical-gearbox-hard-to-copy-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/williams-radical-gearbox-hard-to-copy-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams&#8217; radical gearbox hard to copy &#8211; Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Michael is confident Williams&#8217; innovative 2011 car will be hard for the British team&#8217;s rivals to copy.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxfordshire based team&#8217;s technical director singled out only four innovations of note among the class of 2011: Renault and Red Bull&#8217;s exhaust systems, the Toro Rosso double-floor, and Williams&#8217; ultra compact and low gearbox.<\/p>\n<p>He is quoted by The Sun as saying the first three innovations will be quite easy to copy &#8220;whereas a gearbox is a completely different kettle of fish&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Michael said all the teams have been closely studying each other&#8217;s new cars, but &#8220;We have no idea where everyone is&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Following the launch of the FW33&#8217;s new livery, a photograph of the newly painted car circulating at an unidentified circuit with Pastor Maldonado at the wheel was published by Brazil&#8217;s Globo Esporte.<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Michael is confident Williams&#8217; innovative 2011 car will be hard for the British team&#8217;s rivals to copy. The Oxfordshire based team&#8217;s technical director singled out only four innovations of note among the class of 2011: Renault and Red Bull&#8217;s exhaust systems, the Toro Rosso double-floor, and Williams&#8217; ultra compact and low gearbox. He is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,544,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11262,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions\/11262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}