{"id":16154,"date":"2012-06-09T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16154"},"modified":"2012-06-09T08:57:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:57:35","slug":"fia-tells-red-bull-to-change-brake-cooling-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-tells-red-bull-to-change-brake-cooling-design\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA tells Red Bull to change brake cooling design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The widely-reported &#8216;floor holes&#8217; were not the only technical feature on Red Bull&#8217;s 2012 car to have caught the FIA&#8217;s attention recently.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-logos\/FIA-2.jpg\" alt=\"FIA-2\" width=\"360\" height=\"144\" \/>The reigning world champions were told by F1&#8217;s governing body after Monaco that its floor design does not comply with a new directive issued by Charlie Whiting.<\/p>\n<p>But Auto Motor und Sport reports that the energy drink-owned team has had to make yet another modification.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FIA has discovered another illegal detail on the Red Bull,&#8221; the German report said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The detail is in the brake cooling ducts of the Adrian Newey-penned RB8, which in the FIA&#8217;s opinion were being improperly used by Red Bull as an aerodynamic aid.<\/p>\n<p>The rules say the ducts must be used only for cooling.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull reportedly argued that its design was exclusively for cooling, but the FIA did not agree and ordered a re-design.<\/p>\n<p>Auto Motor und Sport said the Milton-Keynes based team has been using the offending layout since the start of the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The widely-reported &#8216;floor holes&#8217; were not the only technical feature on Red Bull&#8217;s 2012 car to have caught the FIA&#8217;s attention recently. The reigning world champions were told by F1&#8217;s governing body after Monaco that its floor design does not comply with a new directive issued by Charlie Whiting. But Auto Motor und Sport 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":[5262,5300,5340,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154"}],"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=16154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16155,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions\/16155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}