{"id":12286,"date":"2011-05-13T07:09:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2011-05-13T07:09:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T11:09:51","slug":"mercedes-to-debut-renault-like-side-exhausts-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-to-debut-renault-like-side-exhausts-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes to debut Renault-like side exhausts &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is reportedly set to introduce a Renault-like approach to its 2011 car&#8217;s exhaust layout for debut in Barcelona next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It was already rumoured that the German team is perhaps now closer than any other to imitating Red Bull&#8217;s flexible front wing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Barcelona we have some aerodynamic developments that should bring us a step in performance,&#8221; team boss Ross Brawn told Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>AS newspaper said the main feature of Mercedes&#8217; Spanish upgrade is side-exiting exhausts, with Red Bull&#8217;s Adrian Newey admitting recently that innovation has been the most impressive of the season so far.<\/p>\n<p>Said team driver Nico Rosberg: &#8220;Most teams are bringing new things, but I think ours could be better than the others to bring us a little closer to the top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Italy&#8217;s Autosprint said McLaren is set to move forward in Barcelona in the crucial new area of engine mapping settings for the blown exhaust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Turkey we&#8217;d planned to introduce a couple of useful upgrades, but for several reasons we weren&#8217;t able to get them onto the car,&#8221; revealed Jenson Button.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes is reportedly set to introduce a Renault-like approach to its 2011 car&#8217;s exhaust layout for debut in Barcelona next weekend. It was already rumoured that the German team is perhaps now closer than any other to imitating Red Bull&#8217;s flexible front wing. &#8220;For Barcelona we have some aerodynamic developments that should bring us a &#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":[5262,5340,34,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286"}],"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=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12288,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions\/12288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}