{"id":2943,"date":"2010-03-06T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2010-03-06T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T19:47:05","slug":"whiting-did-not-inspect-mclaren-wing-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/whiting-did-not-inspect-mclaren-wing-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiting did not inspect McLaren wing on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Charlie Whiting did not as scheduled visit McLaren&#8217;s headquarters on Friday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FIA&#8217;s technical delegate had been invited to Woking to inspect the rear wing design of the MP4-25 car.<!--more--><\/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, who said Ferrari was also seeking a clarification.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the Friday inspection did not occur because Whiting&#8217;s flights from Brazil were delayed.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh, and also a spokesman for the Paris based Federation, said the FIA is not concerned about the design.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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; Whitmarsh insisted.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Whiting still intends to visit Woking, perhaps as soon as Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Whiting did not as scheduled visit McLaren&#8217;s headquarters on Friday. \u00a0 The FIA&#8217;s technical delegate had been invited to Woking to inspect the rear wing design of the MP4-25 car.<\/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":[810,5262,491,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943"}],"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=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}