{"id":2529,"date":"2010-02-19T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2010-02-19T06:49:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:49:14","slug":"ferrari-designs-wheel-nut-for-fast-pitstops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-designs-wheel-nut-for-fast-pitstops\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari designs wheel nut for fast pitstops"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ferrari has designed a new wheel nut in an effort to win F1&#8217;s 2010 pitstop race.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With in-race refuelling not allowed this year for the first time since 1993, Williams hinted recently that tyre pitstops in 2010 could be as short as sub-three seconds.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s El Pais newspaper reports that Ferrari has responded to the challenge by designing a cone-shaped nut that integrates better with the wheel gun.<\/p>\n<p>The nut also features the automatic triggering of its fastener, where previously it needed to be pulled manually by a mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have worked over the winter to speed up the process of changing tyres,&#8221; said designer Nikolas Tombazis.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari has designed a new wheel nut in an effort to win F1&#8217;s 2010 pitstop race. \u00a0 With in-race refuelling not allowed this year for the first time since 1993, Williams hinted recently that tyre pitstops in 2010 could be as short as sub-three seconds.<\/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":[5262,93,550,746],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529"}],"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=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}