{"id":2895,"date":"2010-03-04T06:31:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T11:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2010-03-04T06:31:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T11:31:30","slug":"fia-asked-to-rule-on-mclaren-rear-wing-legality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-asked-to-rule-on-mclaren-rear-wing-legality\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA asked to rule on McLaren rear wing legality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The FIA is set to rule on whether the rear wing on McLaren&#8217;s 2010 car is legal.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Telegraph, both Red Bull and Ferrari have requested the clarification about a slot on the wing of the MP5-25 designed to reduce drag and add 10kph to the car&#8217;s speed on straights.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a bit of a fuss over McLaren&#8217;s rear wing,&#8221; confirmed Red Bull team boss Christian Horner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have a slot on it and they can pick up a lot of straight-line speed.\u00a0 I think it will get resolved before the first race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve asked the FIA for clarification although I think Ferrari are probably more excited than we are to be honest,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>Horner said the issue is not as serious as the double diffuser controversy of 2009, but is quoted by the Daily Mail as saying McLaren&#8217;s wing is &#8220;certainly a different device from all of the other teams&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They must be very confident that it&#8217;s legal.\u00a0 I would think it will be legal,&#8221; he admitted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically, if you stall the wing you take all the drag off it and pick up straight-line speed.\u00a0 It&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been done quite a lot over the years but with the wing separators you&#8217;re not supposed to do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our question ultimately will be: is it clever design or is it in breach of the regulations?&#8221; added Horner.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA is set to rule on whether the rear wing on McLaren&#8217;s 2010 car is legal. \u00a0 According to the Telegraph, both Red Bull and Ferrari have requested the clarification about a slot on the wing of the MP5-25 designed to reduce drag and add 10kph to the car&#8217;s speed on straights.<\/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":[5262,93,5300,845,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895"}],"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=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}