{"id":14956,"date":"2012-01-18T06:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=14956"},"modified":"2012-01-18T06:45:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:45:59","slug":"fia-to-tinker-with-drs-zones-for-2012-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-to-tinker-with-drs-zones-for-2012-report\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA to tinker with DRS zones for 2012 &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s controversial &#8220;DRS&#8221; innovation is staying put for 2012, according to an Italian report.<\/p>\n<p>While many hailed the moveable rear wing flaps&#8217; contribution to overtaking last season, others criticised the drag reduction system for compromising the purity of wheel-to-wheel racing.<\/p>\n<p>According to Autosprint, DRS is staying this year.<\/p>\n<p>But the FIA will reportedly modify the number and length of the overtaking zones at some circuits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason is to facilitate overtaking by extending the zones at those circuits where it proved too difficult, and shortening them where the passing was too exaggerated,&#8221; the Italian language report read.<\/p>\n<p>One DRS supporter is the Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The important thing is that we are overtaking &#8212; who really cares why?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However it is good to optimise everything, especially where it has been possible to gain 50 metres (on a rival) by the end of a straight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s better that it (passing) is a bit more difficult than too easy,&#8221; the German said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s controversial &#8220;DRS&#8221; innovation is staying put for 2012, according to an Italian report. While many hailed the moveable rear wing flaps&#8217; contribution to overtaking last season, others criticised the drag reduction system for compromising the purity of wheel-to-wheel racing. According to Autosprint, DRS is staying this year. But the FIA will reportedly modify the &#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":[3001,5262,5300,5340,34,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956"}],"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=14956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14957,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956\/revisions\/14957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}