{"id":15054,"date":"2012-01-30T06:34:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2012-01-30T06:34:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:34:41","slug":"no-2012-plan-for-lotus-ride-height-system-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-2012-plan-for-lotus-ride-height-system-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"No 2012 plan for Lotus ride height system debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lotus &#8216;reactive ride height system&#8217; controversy may have been a storm in a teacup.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in Turun Sanomat newspaper, Finnish correspondent Heikki Kulta said the former Renault team did not even intend to run the innovative concept in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The FIA pre-empted the teams&#8217; race to implement the systems when it emerged that Ferrari, Mercedes and possibly Red Bull were already rushing to emulate the Lotus concept.<\/p>\n<p>Before the governing body&#8217;s decision to ban it, Lotus gave the system its debut at the Abu Dhabi young drivers&#8217; test late last year.<\/p>\n<p>But Kulta claims the team was not ready to give it a race debut &#8220;because it did not work properly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lotus &#8216;reactive ride height system&#8217; controversy may have been a storm in a teacup. Writing in Turun Sanomat newspaper, Finnish correspondent Heikki Kulta said the former Renault team did not even intend to run the innovative concept in 2012. The FIA pre-empted the teams&#8217; race to implement the systems when it emerged that Ferrari, &#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":[5262,93,5300,5340,3566,34,129,1163,1228],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054"}],"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=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}