{"id":2937,"date":"2010-03-05T06:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2010-03-05T06:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T11:51:22","slug":"fias-whiting-to-inspect-mclaren-wing-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fias-whiting-to-inspect-mclaren-wing-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA&#8217;s Whiting to inspect McLaren wing on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The FIA&#8217;s technical delegate Charlie Whiting will on Friday inspect the rear wing design of McLaren&#8217;s 2010 car.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The controversy about the legality of the design, with air reportedly channelled through a &#8216;slot&#8217; to increase straight line speed, was revealed earlier this week by Christian Horner.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull team boss said Ferrari was also concerned about the wing.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail newspaper said Whiting, also F1&#8217;s permanent race director and starter, will visit the British team&#8217;s Woking headquarters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wing is different and innovative, yes,&#8221; McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh told the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we have been in contact with Charlie over a period of several months to check that it complies with regulations.\u00a0 We have been assured that it does,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Mercedes-powered team told the Times: &#8220;The only reason it (the issue) has suddenly sprung up is because it&#8217;s such a big thing that sticks out of the top of the car and everyone can see it and get excited about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph said Ferrari has &#8220;confirmed that they (do) not intend to take the matter further&#8221; than Whiting&#8217;s clarification.<\/p>\n<p>An FIA spokesman said: &#8220;We have no concerns with it (the wing), but we have been invited by the team to view the car so Charlie is going down to have a look.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIA&#8217;s technical delegate Charlie Whiting will on Friday inspect the rear wing design of McLaren&#8217;s 2010 car. \u00a0 The controversy about the legality of the design, with air reportedly channelled through a &#8216;slot&#8217; to increase straight line speed, was revealed earlier this week by Christian Horner.<\/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":[810,128,5262,856],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"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=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}