{"id":19233,"date":"2013-09-10T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19233"},"modified":"2013-09-10T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T11:09:09","slug":"monza-gearbox-problems-a-mystery-newey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/monza-gearbox-problems-a-mystery-newey\/","title":{"rendered":"Monza gearbox problems &#8216;a mystery&#8217; &#8211; Newey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull left Monza scratching its head, after winner Sebastian Vettel and teammate Mark Webber nursed gearbox problems throughout the race weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Adrian-Newey-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Adrian-Newey-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>&#8220;We already had problems on Friday,&#8221; world championship leader Vettel is quoted by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Before the race, the team had to open the gearbox and replace damaged parts, and during the Italian grand prix, both drivers were instructed to &#8216;short-shift&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And the drivers were also told to select a &#8216;rain-mode&#8217; setting, delivering smoother gear changes, which explains why Fernando Alonso complained about Vettel&#8217;s flashing red tail light.<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull was alerted to the problem after the telemetry showed high oil temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frankly, it&#8217;s a mystery,&#8221; admitted car designer Adrian Newey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Monza is particularly hard on the gearbox, but we never had a problem like this,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Mark it was serious, while for Vettel it was more of a precaution.\u00a0 It is possible that we will open his gearbox in the factory and everything is fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Christian Horner added: &#8220;Caterham uses an identical gearbox and had no problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull left Monza scratching its head, after winner Sebastian Vettel and teammate Mark Webber nursed gearbox problems throughout the race weekend. &#8220;We already had problems on Friday,&#8221; world championship leader Vettel is quoted by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport. Before the race, the team had to open the gearbox and replace damaged parts, and &#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":[396,128,5262,5340,2137,165,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233"}],"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=19233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19234,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233\/revisions\/19234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}