{"id":11395,"date":"2011-03-08T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11395"},"modified":"2011-03-08T07:06:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:06:02","slug":"mclaren-debut-nose-bump-heidfeld-has-a-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mclaren-debut-nose-bump-heidfeld-has-a-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren debut nose bump; Heidfeld has a cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren debuted a radical front nose as the final week of pre-season testing kicked off at Barcelona on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jenson Button took to the Circuit de Catalunya with a bulbous lump on the nose of his MP4-26, connecting rods to the extremities of the front wing.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the setup is a tool to accurately measure front wing &#8216;flex&#8217;, after McLaren was out-foxed in this area by &#8211; notably &#8211; Red Bull and Ferrari last year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a McLaren spokesman confirmed reports the British team will not be running in Spain on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s schedule will therefore effectively be two back-to-back tests on Tuesday-Wednesday and Friday-Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It also emerged in Barcelona on Tuesday that Nick Heidfeld, replaced on the opening day by his teammate Vitaly Petrov, is sitting out the action with a cold.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McLaren debuted a radical front nose as the final week of pre-season testing kicked off at Barcelona on Tuesday. Jenson Button took to the Circuit de Catalunya with a bulbous lump on the nose of his MP4-26, connecting rods to the extremities of the front wing. It is believed the setup is a tool to &#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":[5314,5326,5262,5340,5284,98],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395"}],"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=11395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11396,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395\/revisions\/11396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}