{"id":3084,"date":"2010-03-12T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2010-03-12T07:11:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:11:01","slug":"angry-bell-not-ruling-out-knee-gate-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/angry-bell-not-ruling-out-knee-gate-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Bell not ruling out knee-gate protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bob Bell has refused to rule out lodging a protest after the FIA cleared McLaren&#8217;s controversial aerodynamic trick for the 2010 season.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes of the green light shining for opening practice at the Bahrain season opener on Friday morning, Renault&#8217;s technical boss delivered a scathing verdict on what could become known as &#8216;knee-gate&#8217;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Asked about the monocoque air inlet that is triggered by the drivers&#8217; left knee on the MP4-25, Irishman Bell said the Woking based team had &#8220;driven a concourse through the spirit of the regulations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was a &#8220;joke&#8221; and &#8220;nonsense&#8221; that the FIA had green lighted the &#8220;completely illegal&#8221; innovation, which will now spark an &#8220;arms race&#8221; within pitlane.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by BBC radio if Renault will submit an official protest, an angry Bell answered: &#8220;I honestly couldn&#8217;t comment on that, to be honest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Bell has refused to rule out lodging a protest after the FIA cleared McLaren&#8217;s controversial aerodynamic trick for the 2010 season. \u00a0 Within minutes of the green light shining for opening practice at the Bahrain season opener on Friday morning, Renault&#8217;s technical boss delivered a scathing verdict on what could become known as &#8216;knee-gate&#8217;.<\/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":[890,889,5315,253,5262,5300,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084"}],"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=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}