{"id":17750,"date":"2013-02-07T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17750"},"modified":"2013-02-07T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:00:05","slug":"brawn-wants-testing-tweaks-for-2014-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/brawn-wants-testing-tweaks-for-2014-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawn wants testing tweaks for 2014 engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn is calling for F1&#8217;s engine suppliers to be allowed to do some early testing ahead of the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Ross-Brown-5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Ross-Brown-5.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The Mercedes team boss said it is a risk to stick to the current plan, which would involve manufacturers and teams running all-new turbo V6s for the first time mere weeks ahead of the next world championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking for a solution,&#8221; he is quoted by the Dutch magazine Formule1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying we need testing with the new engines this year, but maybe the first test days can be brought forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the engine supplier, it&#8217;s a difficult task,&#8221; added Brawn.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Christian Horner agreed that some tweaks for the pre-2014 test programme would be &#8220;logical&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But Lotus&#8217; technical director James Allison is not so sure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is it possible to get ready in three tests?\u00a0 Yes,&#8221; he answered rhetorically, saying simulation and dynamometer technology in F1 has become sufficiently advanced.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Brawn is calling for F1&#8217;s engine suppliers to be allowed to do some early testing ahead of the 2014 season. The Mercedes team boss said it is a risk to stick to the current plan, which would involve manufacturers and teams running all-new turbo V6s for the first time mere weeks ahead of 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":[5262,5340,34,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750"}],"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=17750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17751,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions\/17751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}