{"id":11643,"date":"2011-03-25T06:59:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T10:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11643"},"modified":"2011-03-25T06:59:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T10:59:54","slug":"red-bull-opposes-wing-rules-due-to-power-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-opposes-wing-rules-due-to-power-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull opposes wing rules due to power deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull reportedly made a last-minute attempt to have the moveable rear wing rules changed ahead of the 2011 season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat claimed that the reigning champions wanted the wing banned for practice and qualifying sessions, but not all the other teams agreed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Letting us use it on all the straights, on all the laps, makes no sense,&#8221; O Estado de S.Paulo quotes Mark Webber as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish report hypothesised that the reason for Red Bull&#8217;s stance is due to the team believing that the constant deployment of the wings will only exacerbate its existing straightline speed deficit to major rivals including Ferrari and Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The (wing rules) has been discussed and approved at the FOTA level as well as the FIA level,&#8221; an unnamed source confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One team wants it to be different because their straight line speed is not as good as its competitors,&#8221; the source added.<\/p>\n<p>For safety reasons, the FIA has however decided to ban the use of the adjustable wing in practice and qualifying sessions when cars are using wet tyres.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull reportedly made a last-minute attempt to have the moveable rear wing rules changed ahead of the 2011 season opener. Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat claimed that the reigning champions wanted the wing banned for practice and qualifying sessions, but not all the other teams agreed. &#8220;Letting us use it on all the straights, on all &#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":[5262,5340,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643"}],"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=11643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11644,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643\/revisions\/11644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}