{"id":14875,"date":"2012-01-11T07:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14875"},"modified":"2012-01-11T07:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:02:15","slug":"lotus-to-run-radical-braking-system-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/lotus-to-run-radical-braking-system-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus to run radical braking system in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus could set the trend with the first major innovation of the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat reports that Giorgio Piolo &#8211; arguably F1&#8217;s most respected technical illustrator &#8211; has revealed that Lotus&#8217; new car features a radical braking system.<\/p>\n<p>According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, the system is similar to the mass damper innovation pioneered by the Enstone based team (then Renault) some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The innovation was reportedly discovered during the young drivers&#8217; test in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Turun Sanomat explained that the driver-operated system involves adjustments to improve aerodynamic performance through the ride-height.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus&#8217; drivers in 2012 are Kimi Raikkonen, the returning 2007 world champion, and reigning GP2 champion Romain Grosjean.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus could set the trend with the first major innovation of the 2012 season. Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat reports that Giorgio Piolo &#8211; arguably F1&#8217;s most respected technical illustrator &#8211; has revealed that Lotus&#8217; new car features a radical braking system. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, the system is similar to the mass damper innovation &#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":[5262,5340,152,60,295],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875"}],"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=14875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14876,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875\/revisions\/14876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}