{"id":2733,"date":"2010-02-26T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2010-02-26T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T12:20:37","slug":"mercedes-tests-ferrari-like-traffic-light-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mercedes-tests-ferrari-like-traffic-light-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes tests Ferrari-like traffic light system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The race to perfect ultra-fast pitstops in 2010 continues to heat up.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With refuelling banned in 2010, the limiting factor in pistops this year will be the teams&#8217; ability to jack up the car and change the tyres.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our record is 2.83 seconds,&#8221; said Williams&#8217; test boss Dickie Stanford, according to Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari has introduced a new quick release-and-replace wheel nut, and Mercedes&#8217; efforts to speed up pitstops is also evident.<\/p>\n<p>The former Brawn team has been testing Ferrari-style traffic lights, and also mechanical quick-release jacks, in order to steer around the new ban on powered systems.<\/p>\n<p>With Vitaly Petrov at the wheel, the Renault crew practiced dozens of real-world pitstops at Barcelona on Thursday, most in the realm of three seconds.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race to perfect ultra-fast pitstops in 2010 continues to heat up. \u00a0 With refuelling banned in 2010, the limiting factor in pistops this year will be the teams&#8217; ability to jack up the car and change the tyres.<\/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":[816,34],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733"}],"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=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}