{"id":11819,"date":"2011-04-06T05:55:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T09:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11819"},"modified":"2011-04-06T05:55:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T09:55:40","slug":"massa-opposed-to-expanded-drs-use-at-sepang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/massa-opposed-to-expanded-drs-use-at-sepang\/","title":{"rendered":"Massa opposed to expanded DRS use at Sepang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa does not want the use of F1&#8217;s new adjustable rear wing system to be expanded following its debut in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>After the &#8216;drag reduction system&#8217; (DRS) did not overly contribute to overtaking on the Melbourne pit straight, it is believed officials are considering making two activation zones usable for the Malaysian grand prix this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It was believed teams were working on the assumption that the wings will only be able to be used during the race on Sepang&#8217;s long front straight.<\/p>\n<p>But Ferrari driver Massa revealed: &#8220;We are waiting for the final decision from the FIA to see if we use DRS on the front straight, the back one or both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sepang&#8217;s back straight is actually longer than the one parallel the pits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Personally, I am not sure that allowing DRS on both straights is the best option, because I think it might actually make overtaking too easy,&#8221; said Massa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to get the right balance between helping the chances of overtaking and having almost too much passing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Massa does not want the use of F1&#8217;s new adjustable rear wing system to be expanded following its debut in Australia. After the &#8216;drag reduction system&#8217; (DRS) did not overly contribute to overtaking on the Melbourne pit straight, it is believed officials are considering making two activation zones usable for the Malaysian grand prix &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,130,93,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819"}],"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=11819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11820,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions\/11820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}