{"id":14026,"date":"2011-10-24T07:03:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T11:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14026"},"modified":"2011-10-24T07:03:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T11:03:56","slug":"fia-moves-even-harder-to-stop-diffuser-blowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-moves-even-harder-to-stop-diffuser-blowing\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA moves even harder to stop diffuser blowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA is moving to clamp down even harder on the aerodynamic use of exhaust gases ahead of the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>F1&#8217;s governing body had already announced the end of the so-called &#8216;blown diffuser&#8217; era by dictating the positioning of the exhausts and limiting the allowable off-throttle engine maps for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>But Italy&#8217;s Autosprint reports that, following fears the new rules could also have been exploited by teams, the FIA has &#8220;turned the screw&#8221; even tighter.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris federation has reportedly said that the 2012 version of the software to electronically control the engine will be &#8220;even more limited&#8221; than was previously expected.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217; new chief engineer Mark Gillan is quoted as saying: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen a year when there were no loopholes in the technical regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is one of the most enjoyable aspects of our work &#8212; to seek out areas in which the rules are vague and can be exploited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA is moving to clamp down even harder on the aerodynamic use of exhaust gases ahead of the 2012 season. F1&#8217;s governing body had already announced the end of the so-called &#8216;blown diffuser&#8217; era by dictating the positioning of the exhausts and limiting the allowable off-throttle engine maps for 2012. But Italy&#8217;s Autosprint reports &#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":[3330,5262,5300,5340,3331],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026"}],"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=14026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14027,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions\/14027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}